I’m Up to My Ears with This
You don’t kill a tree by cutting it off at the ground… new shoots always start to grow from the stump. Same stump… same tree. It’s not rocket science! We have three trees in this country that need to be removed. They are so big, their roots wiggle their way into everything, affecting everyone’s life in one way or another. They are so strong, the wildest winds could not knock them down. As they feed themselves, their branches spread, leaving a mess everywhere. Because they have not been destroyed, they continue to grow. If these trees are not stopped, they will consume everything this country has to give. Yet, their appetite can never be stopped… unless the trees are uprooted.
It may be news to you, but these trees are manicured; fed the best we have to offer. Yet they search for more… their thirst never quenched. There are thousands of people whose job it is to clean up the mess these trees make, but the mess grows faster than the people can clean. More people try to help slow the growth, giving more of what they have. The trees seem to sense the added food, and they come back to take it. All will never be enough, for they grow ever more out of control, requiring more and more.
The trees are the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches. A thing of beauty, turned fungal and diseased. Leaders, they are supposed to be… but they are not. True leaders lead by example. Ours cower, clothed in secrecy and lies. “Deals with the Devil”, the order of the day. Deals with each other… no matter… all will be taken. Leading by example inspires, and promotes trust… things that have long ago been washed down the drain. They pass laws that do everything except why they are there… to protect the American people. But they don’t “feel our pain”, as they have exempted themselves from the laws they pass.
Why, you ask, would leaders not lead by example? They know the terrible price they would have to pay… the same price they are selling us for… a price too high. To lead by example… so much of the good life to give up:
Steak and lobster; Champaign and wine
$100.00 cigars to blow smoke all the time.
Trips to wherever, whenever they want
taxpayer’s dollars always ready to flaunt,
Votes for a jet ride, war chests full of gold
wanting baby cell miracles so they never grow old.
Golf on the weekends, banquets to attend
break laws without fear … their colleagues defend.
Pompous and arrogant, disingenuous; never held accountable for treasons committed. Some representatives have been in office for decades, yet, the same problems that plagued us then still hobble us, as we spin in circles going nowhere. Turning corporations into people… or was that acknowledging that people are corporations?? It is spelled out if you just look!
The first two rules of warfare… know your enemy; divide and conquer. They know us so well! We, as a people, have been divided into so many self-interest groups, and set upon each other, we spend all our time squabbling over scraps… the old “bait ‘n switch”; or “see what’s in my hand” as the other one is behind their back wheeling and dealing. We all have to pull our heads out of our asses and take a look around at what is going on. People… we are all being played like a violin, and we are dancing to their music.
My solution…
Rid us of this disease… uproot the evil things… vote everyone out of office, cycle after cycle, until there is no one left who knows their secrets… no one left to keep the trees alive.
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Exceptional writing yet again, Steve. You never cease to amaze me.
Thank you!