Good Morning Everyone, and Happy Easter! I recently had the opportunity to listen to an interview with the President of Wesleyan University. He spoke on something that grabbed my attention: See, as a listener in this interview I was a bit surprised by the willingness of this man, as a representative of the University, would be willing to be critical of the Drumpf Administration – especially right now as drumpf seems to be driving head long into the abyss of Fascism and Authoritarianism, and he was asked of that. I have to admit, I feel a bit of concern as I write what I write, knowing that I don’t have the power to contradict an arrest, imprisonment, deportation to a foreign land all because the ‘power of the moment’ doesn’t like what I say. How much more is this man in jeapardy, and so as the interviewer’s question sparked my own concerns and therein my attention, I was awarded this statement (para): “It says a lot that you would ask me that question. I mean, where are we?”.
It is striking to me that we are hearkening back to the age of McCarthyism and the Red Scare, only to find that the Red Scare is not Russia and Communism – in fact, they seem to be quite the fan of our current administration and our current administration is absolutely fawning at the feet of them! No, the fear of our administration is that people be treated with dignity, given their Constitutionally guaranteed rights and freedoms. And, to say to us that believe the Bill of Rights are sacrosanct that we must be treasonous if we demand our people be given those rights and freedoms flies in the face of our Forefathers who fought and died to provide us that freedom – from the contemporaries of Paul Revere and George Washington to the ones we see marching on Veteran’s Day.
Below is a video because I like to give a bit of entertainment along with my clanging sentences of woe and worry. Within are these lines:
‘And the young people ask, “what are they marching for?”, and I ask myself the same question. The old men still answer the call, but as year follows year, more old men disappear. Someday no one will march there at all”
It startles me how quickly we have forgotten. It saddens me the cost of our remiss.
Hugs. -randy
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Wow Randy. I never heard this before. I will add it to my apple song play list. Thank you. Hugs
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Well Randy I wrote too soon. Now I can not add any new music to Apple Play list music. I hate the changes the tech companies do to gain more profit. Hugs
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Hi Scottie. I’m glad you liked the song. It is Australian, of course, but a lot of things are universal – right? But that line: what are they marching for… always struck me. We as a country have gotten ourselves so wrapped up and willingly led by the zeitgeist engineered by politicians just brainstorming ways to rob, rape and destroy what they were meant to protect and grow all so they could have a few more dollars. I once read something that was so true: it talked about how bad off some of the rich were because all they had was money — having sacrificed faith, love, hope, decency…
hugs;
randy
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