I haven’t published anything since July 10, 2018 when I gave some good Uncle advice to my nephew Marc on his wedding day. Since that joyous day, I’ve had somewhat of a difficult time feeling anything but anger at President Tweet and his band of enablers.  I can’t seem to do anything in my free time but read about and share on Facebook and Twitter the latest bit of unacceptable news from Washington. It’s high time I return to just writing. What do you think?  Can I do that?

After all, I started this Blog at the advice of a friend who liked how I didn’t take myself too seriously and enjoyed my humor. Indeed, I’ve tried to write many funny things in my 87 previous posts. I’m very proud that over the course of the last few years I’ve been able to write just about whatever my heart desired. It’s cheap therapy, writing, but also something I enjoy. So why continue limiting myself?  So, in my return, this post may just be something of a ramble.  I hope that is OK.

The anger I feel is toward ignorance and hate and the degradation of the United States of America.  Every day, I feel embarrassed to call myself an American.  We are better than what we’ve shown the world in the last two years and, save for the Blue Wave in the midterm elections and the recent showdown between Tweet and the Democrats (the Dems won!), there’s been no checks and balances.  The rule of law must prevail and I remain optimistic that Robert Mueller’s investigation will continue to tighten the noose around the President’s neck.  There’s no question his campaign colluded with the Russians.  How can the Tweet’s supporters not see this?  He must be impeached and convicted and sent to jail.  He has sold out our great nation.  His behavior cannot be acceptable.

I’m reminded that today is International Holocaust Memorial day.  There are shocking levels of denial in my home country where I read a startling statistic that 1/3 of all Americans deny the Holocaust even existed.  Oh, my God!  This horrible tragedy and the loss of 6 million Jews is incomprehensible and history should never be repeated.  It angers me so that the divisiveness created then is repeating itself now in the United States.  Rather than concentration camps, the Tweeter has 14,000 children in detention and each soul is hoping they will not be forgotten.  Rather than gassing these kids, our government has ripped them away from their parents forever scarring their belief in freedom and their image of the United States as a nation of immigrants.  This angers me so.  This is not the American way of life.  History will not be kind to the Tweet administration.  As this inhumane policy will forever scar the USA like the Holocaust has Germany.

I’d promised myself that I would try to write something funny but today nothing is really tickling my funny bone.  I’m a proud card carrying Democrat.  Call me a snowflake if you wish but I believe in truth, justice, and the American way.  The American way I care so deeply is about working hard, paying your taxes, loving your fellow human being, equality, preventing climate change, civil rights, the separation of Church and State, and the Constitution as the law of the land.  What makes America great is respect and decency.  And those ideals are not so hard to fathom but we need to set a better example than what we see today.  I’d like us to return a state of opportunity not hostility.

What we see too much of is hate.  The anger toward others has to end and it has to end with us.  We must continue the fight against bigotry, misogyny, and narcissism.  We must set a better example for our kids, for the next generation, and for ourselves.  It is only in this way, we can return to some sense of normalcy, and I can return to a more carefree, affable, and witty persona.  For now, I must fight on for civility, education, and love.

Are you with me or is this more of the same, old, B.S. you’ve come to expect from me?