Like a Cold and Dreary Rain Storm

The news swirls around me like a cold and dreary rain storm that just doesn't want to quit (sounds like the start of cheap noire novel - ha).

But it's just terrible ...

That conflict and debate should surround a president is perfectly normal, but this ceaseless barrage of chaos and corruption has taken the US of A to a new low, degraded the office of the president, crippled the government and threatens the entire economy.

Is this normal?

Heaven's no.

This is more the stuff of banana republics and third world dictatorships ... but not for America.

Yet, look at Britain, and what the conservatives have done there, with their Brexit idiocy, their headlong plunge into the past, to regain some imagined golden age of British hegemony and independence.

Look now at Brazil.

And such tendencies in Poland and again in Serbian areas, that part of the world where partisan interests and violent empires collided head on in WW1.

Wherever the conservative, nationalistic, racist, crazies, have a chance to implement their view of things, tinged as they nearly always are with religious zealotry, chaos ensues, and the people suffer, ultimately, even the wealthy, who initially often support such moves, as they appear to them as potential profit. All across the board, it's avarice, that ancient sin of desire, to have it all, to have it now, to have it according to our wants and dictates, lest someone else get more than their "fair" share of the pie.

What has happening in America right now is nothing less that pathological - it's not normal, it's not rational, it's not politics as usual - it's demonic, wicked, evil, and deadly.

It is but one world in which we live, and all of us are sisters and brothers to one to another, whatever our status may be, and we're at one with our environment, and the more we try to dominate our environment the more thoroughly the environment will rise up against us - either we learn these lessons now, or the chaos will swallow us up.