Anyone who went to school during the 50’s and early 60’s remembers the ‘duck and cover’ drills. We were taught to duck under our desks and cover our heads as s protection against a nuclear detonation. We were being herded from behind...learning to follow ridiculous orders because communism was nipping at our heels. The school basement was filled with ‘civil defense’ rations as if to validate the premise that a nuclear disaster was imminent…
Republican senators are performing their own ‘duck and cover’ exercises in the Impeachment trial. They are under the impression that their lies and obfuscations will protect them from the annihilation that should soon to be their lot. Their basements are filled with emergency rations of cash which they think will ensure their political survival when the smoke clears. Thanks to mainstream media, especially Fox (so-called) News, this may be true.
Have you ever seen video from the Ukrainian struggle to protect their people from the Russian invasion that has been going on for years? Does that war even seem real to you? Where are the embedded reporters who chronicle this invasion?
When is the last time you saw footage from the slaughter in Yemen? Thousands of men, women, and children have been vaporized or starved to death by the Saudi’s killing machine. Our government is front and center in this genocide...we provide the weapons, military intelligence, air support, and political cover. Hell, the Saudis even regularly bomb the hospitals to finish off those unfortunates that may have survived their initial American provided hellfire.
We Americans wallow in the morass of unreality that is doled out to us daily...We watch our screens and happily laugh with the soundtracks like obedient puppies. Reality is what we choose it to be, with happy endings never more than minutes away. Soothed to sleep with eyes wide open, their lulla-buys steer us where they want us to go.
Our leaders have changed our shining and pure ‘city on a hill’ into a dark and twisted Mordor, exporting the means of death and destruction around the planet. Is it any wonder that those who facilitate these travesties expect us to swallow their elephant?
These are the same politicians who willingly sanctify the zygote yet carpet bomb the child.