Like that bright yellowish bulb hanging heavy from the eaves of your porch lit on a summer’s night attracting all kinds of insects promising them warmth, safety, security but just a false bit of hope at the ready to snap, crackle and pop each bug as it it finds footing on nothing but a failed prophet. Like the Wizard standing behind a large door surrounded by his guards shouting out loud a bunch of loony tunes which somehow resonate as lullaby’s to those desperately hoping to find the truth never really realizing that looking inward will solve their own madness. Like the promise of the Mega-Lottery, glitzy and full of glow, promoting dreams and desires and all you have to do is take your money for anything needed and place a bet on something so far away that the depths of the universe are closer to find then that promised pot of gold. Like all of that we find people ready to embrace a shiny object, an empty room filled with artificial light, a gaggle of what if’s and how come’s based on nothing but bigger, better, and boastful.
Today I listened as “so called” news organizations pretended that they didn’t understand the Trump phenomena, acting so coyly and cautious as to how this side-show barker could suddenly become a the ring-master, the man wearing the top hat at the ready to introduce what comes next. The main street media babying, cajoling, pampering every mood swing and foul mannerism of Donald Trump giving his antics more air time then some of the paid for commercials scratching their heads as to the popularity of man they assisted to become King. FOX News pretending that they were not part of the zombie virus afflicting their viewers, never stopping to even pretend their sponsored debates were nothing more then a propaganda tool which created a lot of revenue. CNN sending their own reporters out to ask why henchmen with white robes, an abridged version of the Constitution and Confederate Flags support Trump. ABC, CBS, NBC so confused why Trump can get away with lying, fabricating facts or ignoring any questions asked, without anyone of those “Journalists” offering a fact checker or two with every non answer they permitted Trump to get away with.
Like a population always wanting quick and easy responses, never concerned about honesty, thinking heroics are about solving problems with a wall, carpet bombing populations, excluding Americans, we watch as groups of self victimized men and women who by their own habits are marginalized, try and embrace a man who sees himself as a bright glorious yellow orb enticing all to step into the light, only to dissolve, disappear and die. Like a reverse Stephen King novel instead of good triumphing over evil, we are witnessing the vapors of the vicious slowly intrude into our nostrils slowly suffocating the good and replacing it with nothing but the best, baddest and WORST.
