All Fall Down

THE BERNHARD PERSPECTIVE

  ALL FALL DOWN 

In a very real sense we are witnessing the fall of American greatness at the hands of Donald T**** and his right-wing MAGA’s. Consider:

A great, civilized country would not limit health care, tolerate food insecurity for its people or leave crops rotting in the fields while it citizens go hungry. 

It would not destroy what was once admired as the world’s best educational system.

It would not attempt to rewrite its history in order to satisfy a fickle minority who would erase rather than teach and learn the lessons of its tragic past. 

It would not target women by eliminating their reproductive rights or allow politicians to decide their health care issues and all the while refusing to help the babies whoa are the result of their crass indifference. 

A great, civilized country would not refuse or abuse desperate immigrants. 

It would not pretend to believe in Christianity while perverting and betraying its tenets.

It would not refuse to protect the Earth from destruction in deference to industries that would destroy it.

It would not tolerate the rise to autocratic power of a corrupt, demented, pathological liar, second-rate con artist and convicted felon.

A great, civilized country would not tolerate masked, armed and unidentifiable agents chasing people down in the streets and hauling them away in unmarked vehicles. 

It would not tolerate the housing of unnamed victims in inhumane detention centers without access to beds, personal hygiene, medical attention, legal assistance or decent food. 

It would not tolerate the detention, arrest and deportation of unnamed victims without the pretense of due process. 

In all these things America is debased. Its shining light on the hill grows dim as its cheap, tawdry leader drags its exalted promise through the mud.

The truth is that the Great Experiment of America’s Founding Fathers has been abandoned by men who deem themselves above it’s most sacred tenets: that we are one nation with liberty and justice for all, and that no man is above the law. 

Our friends back way and our enemies exult. We have become our own nemesis.

The whole world is watching.