HOPE

(01,21,2021) “Hope springs eternal in the human breast: man never is, but always to be blest: the soul, uneasy, and confined from home, rests and expatiates in a life to come.” This quote from the poem, ‘An Essay on Man’ by Alexander Pope, seems most appropriate for these times. Although Pope wrote this about three hundred years ago, the message, now, strikes close to home on so many levels. Today, hope comes in the form of a vaccine that will treat the COVID-19 virus as well as any variant to follow. Hope struggles to survive, also, in the face of growing adversity in the United States. The death toll there, from the virus, continues to rage out of control as the P.O.T.A.S. (President of the American Supremacists) only took time out from his busy golf schedule to pardon approximately fifty of his cronies. These are people who were found guilty of corruption, extortion, lying to the F.B.I. as well as obstruction of justice, tax evasion and even murder. The P.O.T.A.S. has left everyone else to fend for themselves. For revenge against his own military, he threatened to veto their expense bill. To make things more difficult for those who no longer support him and his lies, particularly those Republicans in his own administration, the P.O.T.A.S. threatened to veto the relief bill that would help millions of his own people. Although it received bi-partisan approval, the P.O.T.A.S. wanted to punish everyone and make his people suffer even further. As if the Americans didn’t have enough to deal with already! But, the P.O.T.A.S. does not care! Instead, he said, “Maybe the next administration can pass the bill.” Then he added, as a teaser to his die hard followers, “Maybe that administration will be me,” still hanging on to the belief that he could steal the election. So, the P.O.T.A.S. held the entire country hostage while he tried to negotiate the ransom, that being the presidency itself. Many of his sycophants continued to urge him on. “Declare martial law!” they cried. “Get Vice-President Pence to refuse to recognize the results of the election,” they encouraged. Of course, it’s all unlawful, totally immoral and undemocratic as well as unconstitutional. But that has been the way his administration has worked since the P.O.T.A.S. first took office. On Jan.6/21, the P.O.T.A.S. incited a mob to riot in an attempt to overthrow the American government. After months of careful planning and co-ordination amongst the leaders of his base, consisting of remnants from the confederacy, (KGC) Knights of the Golden Circle, the Proud Boys, Qanon, Neo-Nazis and fascists as well as any other subversive white supremacist organization, the P.O.T.A.S. ordered them to congregate at the Capitol and fight to take back control of the government. With those orders in hand, the mob stormed the Capitol, the Legislature and Congress in an attempt to steal and destroy the electoral votes. The attack was timed to happen while the counting of the votes was in progress, thereby also endangering the lives of all people present, both Republican and Democrat, as well as their aides. The mob had erected gallows outside the Capitol and shouted, “Hang Pence!”, the P.O.T.A.S.’ own Vice-President, simply because Mike Pence refused to go along with the attempted coup and denied the P.O.T.A.S.’ order to reject the electoral votes. Imagine how far things would have gotten if those two actions had been successful! America would now be in the throes of a dictatorship. The mob came with the intent to kidnap and kill, as was evident with the restraining ties and bombs which were recovered. The total lack of preparation to defend the Capitol, and its occupants, against these actions, lays squarely on the shoulders of the law-makers who still support the P.O.T.A.S. and who refused to provide the security for the government to which they had taken an oath to protect. Instead, their sworn allegiance is to the P.O.T.A.S., a would-be dictator. Many officials on both sides of the aisle had their lives threatened. And, many people were killed, but, the P.O.T.A.S. again, claimed that he did nothing wrong. In his mind, he had given another ‘perfect speech’. This claim puts one in mind of another statement which the P.O.T.A.S. made, early last year, when he was charged with failure to react, as a leader, at the onset of the coronavirus epidemic. At that time, he uttered the only truthful words ever spoken by the P.O.T.A.S., which ought to be carved on his tomb stone, as an epitaph! The P.O.T.A.S. said, “I take no responsibility!” Thusly, it comes as no surprise that, one week later, a bi-partisan Congress voted to impeach the P.O.T.A.S., for a second time. This time, the list of grievances go far beyond obstruction of justice. The P.O.T.A.S. should be charged with treason for his seditious acts. And, yet, there are still those ‘Republicans’ in Congress who would defend their ‘glorious leader’ and say that impeachment would only divide the country. Would it be naive to say that the P.O.T.A.S. has already succeeded, totally, in dividing America with his lies? How can things get any worse than having a confederate uprising, led by the P.O.T.A.S. with white supremacists in the Capitol encouraging another civil war? Conservatives, such as these, hide behind the moniker ‘Patriot’, while breaking most of the laws defined in their own constitution to which they bore allegiance. They are hypocrites and should be condemned along with the P.O.T.A.S., Junior, Rudy Giuliani and political allies who stoked the flames, calling on the mob to fight, ‘kick ass’, and go to combat to ‘take back the house’. One can only hope that the second impeachment of the P.O.T.A.S., the only thing that he will be remembered for, infamously in history, will be just the first step in restoring peace to an already plagued nation. One should also note that, as the P.O.T.A.S. was giving his marching orders to the mob, he told them that he “would be right there with them”. But, of course, he lied again, and took refuge in the White House, where he watched with glee as the horror at the Capitol was unfolding on national television. The P.O.T.A.S. did not seem to understand why everyone around him was not as excited as he was. After it was over, the P.O.T.A.S. went on national television, to speak to ‘his people’ and thanked the terrorists for their actions. He told them that they were very special people and that he loved them very much! Domestic terrorists are the P.O.T.A.S.’ kind of people. Thankfully, hope does spring eternal, for a new President of the United States was sworn in yesterday, on Jan.20/2021, exactly two weeks after the P.O.T.A.S. incited the insurrection on the Capitol. The new P.O.T.U.S. (President of the United States), is Joe Biden, who is not to be confused with (happily) the former one, the P.O.T.A.S. (you know who). Joe has promised to provide some light in all this darkness. Hopefully, when the P.O.T.A.S.’ impeachment goes to trial, in the senate, we will have some illumination.