The last time this country took the low road of destructive innuendo, personal grievance and character assassination against homegrown patriots was during the 1954 Army-McCarthy Hearings. The aforementioned inquiries were actually the second set of hearings following the feared Communists Red-Scare. In 1950 Senator Joseph McCarthy pounded on private and public careers and reputations, using the Senate Committee on Government Operations, as a hammer. Joe McCarthy may be a lesson we have too soon forgotten. McCarthy did not have Twitter in 1950 so he went to Wheeling, West Virginia and warned the country that he had the names of at least 250 communists within the ranks of the federal government, including the executive branch. Sort of the ‘deep state.’ Then, as now, it was really the paranoid ramblings of a man consumed by his own narcissism and regurgitating the whole vomitus episode to feed his own ego; sound familiar?
Besides calling for the jailing [lock her up, lock her up] of his presidential campaign opponent, Hillary Clinton — just because… Trump, like a third world dictator, wants to jail a 21-year veteran of the FBI, Andrew McCabe, he ‘slimeball(ed)’ the reputation of former FBI Director, James Comey, and is leading AG, Jeff “Mr. Magoo” Sessions blindly into the trash-bin of a self-created, abnormal Executive Branch history. All these men are Republicans and the Trump administration is now accusing Comey of lying and leaking. In Trump’s warped illogic, that only an unsophisticated and intellectually ill-equipped ruler, like him, could imagine, Trump is upset that Comey derailed the opponent he savaged on the campaign trail that helped make him President; while simultaneously constructing a conspiracy ring against him, as well. If you are confused, imagine the bag of marbles banging around inside the skull of the President.
When a boxer is knocked out and hits the canvas a common phenomenon called a contrecoup concussion happens. That type of injury occurs when the left or right side of the head is struck and the brain banging against the opposite side of the skull causes the most damage. The American public is suffering this bank-shot of the brain almost daily. Up and down back and forth with a dizzying emotional trauma that has divided America. This hooking and jabbing of right versus left instead of values versus immorality, if no referee is believed worthy to mediate, can leave a deep enough cut that America can spend another 400 years stitching the gaping wound.
Did America wait too long on the chief counsel of the United States Army, Joseph Welch, to finally say what the country had known for years, “have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?” Maybe, but thankfully America got the message. The public tongue-lashing of McCarthy was broadcast on national television and the country was awakened from its slumber. I have long abandoned the idea of Republicans, Mitch or Paul shaking us from this nightmare, with soaring sincere rhetoric, so it may be time for the plan of taking to the streets to reclaim our lives before we take another body shot. I am not putting a lot of faith in civil unrest, but I am putting a lot of faith in civility not resting. We all have to be Joseph Welch, and like him, not settle for a democracy that was being held hostage to the real drunkenness of a Joe McCarthy or suffer the lack of decency from Donald Trump.
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