Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

The world of politics has turned into an absolute circus of idiots. Trump is getting breaks from the courts for reasons no one with a brain can figure out. The dole wagon never stops running because  someone is always on the net or the phone with their hand out telling you how it is imperative for you to donate, donate and donate.

  Then along comes someone with a story about a satanic cult in the White House. This comes from  a conservative senator and it is guess what he puts in his coffee, bet it isn’t sugar. At any rate the far right has to run up the flag of yet another evil that is putting all conservatives at risk. The rest of us are doing just fine but the bunch that is passing restrictive laws, burning books, closing libraries and attempting to turn back the clock are fearful of an imagined cult in the WH. 

  How did we get to this point where everything is upside down? We have lived for years with the apathy of society and a wish not to get involved. As a result we have had minority rule on many things that the majority would not have allowed to happen if they had taken the time to pay attention and get involved.

  Our government has been run by the minority party for years because they find ways to make it possible to get their people elected and the opposition to be kept out. Once they have the upper hand they fill the supreme court with people that have the same views as themselves. As for things in the world of everyday life it is the squeaking wheel that gets the grease, be it on a college campus or in a workplace situation. 

  Now we are hearing about MAGA Soldiers that will be at polling places to ensure that there are not problems with the voting. More likely they will be there to harass and cause problems with people that they feel are not voting the way the Man wants them to.  Will they be at the voting places in districts that are primarily Republican or Democrat, I’m guessing in the latter and the function to carry out will be to get those voters to leave before they can vote. The fact that they  show up just to intimidate should be enough to get them arrested and possibly to get their candidate removed from the ballot.

  The nation has had enough of the bully boy faction and we need to go back to being civil to one another. All the hate speech and negative attitudes along with the rise in the purchase of weapons and we don’t go a day without someone dying because someone else did not like what was said, or how they were looked at, or some other imagined slight and they reach for the gun and start shooting. 

  The days of the snake oil salesman have not passed, they are no longer working out of the back of a covered wagon. Today they are working from very fine offices located in buildings belonging to all sorts of industries and in government buildings as well. The constant stream of lies that have been fed to the public make it hard to tell the truths from the fictional information and trust becomes a problem. Big Pharm will tell you they have cure for something and yet that cure requires that you continue to buy their pill or salve to make the cure work. Cars are being built that can drive themselves, and yet that has proven to be less than true. Each of us needs to look at every situation, promise or whatever and consider if what we are being told makes sense before we jump into the pond and get eaten by whatever lives in that pond.