Donald Trump can kiss my ass
Alienation. It can be seen, felt, touched, inhaled — all over our country these days. NOT ACCEPTABLE. Alienation has been written about, sung about, and spoken about. “Round Here” is one of my favorite songs by The Counting Crows, and it embodies pure alienation.
How could we not feel alienated? We try not to; we struggle not to get jaded or cynical or hardened by the atrocities of the Trump administration. At times like that, music can be a reassuring tool, as words have the power to inspire and command, just as they did for all the Sixties protesters.
Still, it can be tough to keep one’s head above water sometimes. I know that. It can be tough when we see Senators thrown to the ground and handcuffed like animals BY animals. California Senator Alex Padilla is a good man, a United States Senator. Yet he was tackled and tackled, treated like some farm animal, NO. Farm animals would have received better treatment.
This is not acceptable. This happened during a conference with Kristi Noem. All Padilla did was try to ask a question. THAT’S ALL. Tackled. Forced into a hallway. Treated with roughness, all for the crime of asking a question. Sometimes it’s hard. Keeping one’s head above water, I mean.
Sometimes, it’s tough not to look around and see the faces of the haters reflected in the waves, laughing ogres that they are, wanting to take pieces of us, take bites carefully chewing away at our idealism, and trying to make us their naked supplicants. Not acceptable.
“On the ground, on the ground!!!” Those were the words shouted at Padilla. Can one begin to imagine? Hands on your back! Hands on your back!!” My eyes play tricks on me sometimes. I believe we watch together a mass delusion -Trump’s delusion in thinking people in a million years, WANT THIS.
Politico says Senators are shocked. “Looking like a fascist state.” – Senator Elizabeth Warren
Lisa Murkowski chimed in, calling what happened “horrible.” “It’s not the America I know,” she added.
Lindsey Graham, a Trump servant, celebrated the ruckus. I shudder. I toss and turn sometimes BUT… we must not let them make us cynical. We must stay afloat. We must not look at the riptides with despair, for that is what they want.
We must see instead, as the waves roll in, the faces of heroes, of protestors, of GOOD and vibrant men and women like Padilla, we must celebrate them, and what we can NEVER do is give away our power to the Shape-shifters that lurk at the bottom of the muck trying to pull us down, trying to drown our psyches, keep us waterlogged with pain and with rage. Keep your heads up, as well as your internal fire intact. That is what will get us through times like these.
