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It seems every week these days
what is happening in our country
is more unbelievable
than what happened the week before.
There has to be a breaking point
doesn’t there?

Moscow Mitch found one
in a way he least suspected.
If not necessarily karmic,
the irony is inescapable.

But as to the breaking point
for our current societal downspin into darkness
wrought by all the wondrous things
the orange man has introduced
to the mix . . .

Is there some grand point at which
the people wearing their MAGA hats
will awaken and somehow comprehend
that they’ve been hoodwinked?

Is there any hope the grand illusion
proffered, promulgated and perpetrated
by all the president’s men
will somehow yield to the sunlight
to reveal its cancerous underbelly?

What is it going to take
for the 45% to realize that their guy
is toxic . . . a corrosive rot eating away at the very fabric of society?

It defies reason, karma and sensibility
to accept that such outright evil
should be met with such passive acceptance
and acquiescence
yet, look what’s happened?

Fake reality has taken root
and now competes with actual reality
on an equal footing,
in the minds of those in thrall
with the president’s pseudo-charisma.

And when those whose trust is to defend the constitution
and thus, us,
from those who would exploit their positions
for personal gain, at our expense,
turn out to be the same people . . .

What are we to do?

What can we do
when the ears of our representatives
are so stuffed with corporate contributions
they cannot, or will not hear our pleas?

It is said that civilized behavior
is what separates society
from the jungle.

When uncivilized behavior
is celebrated in the Oval Office
and defended in the halls of Congress
what does that say
about the state of civility in America today?

And
when the intolerable
becomes tolerable,
what does that say
about us?

Tim Konrad

August 4, 2019

Petaluma