Fascist-Republicans are desperate
for fast solutions
that do not exist.

They want to believe that walls,
and guns,
and getting everyone to be just like they are
will make them safe.

They are fanatically insecure,
afraid of every future
that is not exactly like
the past which was 1950 wonderful
to their way of thinking.

To their way of thinking,
it all started with Social Security,
welfare and entitlement programs,
and they have been spoon fed 
by the Fascist-Republican leadership
to not dare ask
how farm subsidies,
corporate bailouts,
tax-cuts
and incentives
are different from
welfare and entitlement programs.

Let's start calling tax-cuts socialism,
farm subsidies welfare,
and corporate bailouts entitlement programs.

The Fascist-Repubilican Machine
has long been equating infrastructure, health,
child-care, housing, the WPA/New Deal
expenditures and programs
as socialism and support
for the enemies of democracy,
when opposing such expenditures and programs
is the real enemy of democracy.

Deflecting the light from their work
to destroy democracy
and creating false enemies of the people
to blame for all of the ails and fears of the people
is the art and shame of the Fascist-Republican Machine,
and it has created a terrified foundation
of followers who are fundamentally insecure
and certain they are in constant danger.

The Fascist-Republican leadership
hoses down their base
with daily reminders
of all they have to fear
("They will take away your guns
and your stoves!"),
and keeps the beat going to the tune
of making everyone The Enemy but themselves
in an "Only WE can save you!" kind of way.

The steady repetition of that theme
has created a large swath of the population
of the world
that is "a nervous wreck"
and on the verge of "a complete emotional breakdown,"
from having to be on guard and at the ready
to fight for their lives on every front,
so we have the Mississippi legislature 
banning Sesame Street,
and efforts to ban books across the country
because they pose threats to the existence
of all things good.

Keeping the people boiling
keeps them from thinking,
from connecting the dots,
from adding 2+2 and getting 4,
from seeing what's what
and what is going on,
and asking the questions
that beg to be asked,
and saying the truth 
that cries out to be said.

And how this all plays out
remains to be seen.

In the meantime, the rest of us
have to keep doing what needs to be done,
saying what needs to be said,
asking what needs to be asked,
and understanding that we are dealing 
with fear and hatred which has no rational/logical base,
and that (In the phrase from the 60's)
"Reason cannot uproot what reason did not plant."

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Our life is changing as we watch.

Hold it close,
let it go.

Getting from our life
all it has to offer
in between.

Where have we held back 
from our life?
Refused to go where it 
was taking us?
Not looking at
what it had to show us?
Trying to give us
what we would not have?

Where are we being obstinate?
Refusing to go?
Not looking?
Not having?

We are to look at this life
as the only on we are going to have,
as though it is unique to us,
and we to it.

This is our chance to see
what is to be seen,
to do what is to be done,
to experience what is to be experienced,
to know what there is to know,
to take what it has to offer,
drawing lines where they need
to be drawn,
and being who we are
as opposed to who 
we have no business being.

Who is that?
Have we lived well-enough to know?
We have the time left for living
to be sure.
Why hold anything back?

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The Guardians and Guides 
must be recognized,
honored
and trusted
without being assumed
and taken for granted.

We all "get by
with a little help
from our friends,"
our friends being
the invisible forces/hands
at work in our life,
leading,
directing,
protecting,
defending
us against the forces
of greed and ignorance
that would lead us astray
as they did with Adam and Eve
in the mythical Garden of Eden.

We live between Eden and Gethsemane,
in the Wasteland of our discontent.
Finding the way that is The Way
is a matter of luck and perseverance,
sticking to it
when it looks to all the world
to be nothing more than the wind
that blows where it will.

We do it by enjoying the wonder
of the adventure,
and the thrill of the surprises
and turns
that accompany us through the waiting
and wondering
to the amazement of laughter 
and delight
at the wonder of waiting and wondering
breaking in to encourage us
in the work of being human
between the worlds of reason
and the revered. 

Everything I write is a George Carlin routine.

When you get to the end of your rope,
you have to change your mind 
about what is important.

It's all about being right 
about what's important.

All of our problems 
stem from being wrong 
about what's important.

We will know when we are wrong
about what's important
when our life brings us problems,
one after another,
and we turn to drugs/sex/alcohol/money
to relieve ourselves
of the exhaustion of existence.

Our life is here to wake us up.
To get us back on track,
in the service of what's important.
If we have problems
and are creating more problems
by the way we are dealing with
our problems,
we are in the grip
of the wrong things being important.

We have to sit down,
be quiet, still and empty,
and take stock,
see what we are doing
and change our mind about what's important.

When we finally figure it out,
and are right at last about what is important,
our life will smile,
everything will fall into place,
and be right with the world,
and we will be singin' and dancin' in the rain,
and the sunshine,
because nothing matters more
than being right about what's important
and living as though it is.

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