I think it was a National Geographic Special back in the day when color TV was kind of a new toy for people, so not too many folks in my neighborhood owned one. But this National Geographic Special was heralded as the first look at the intricacies of death, and in a philosophical way how death can lead to the continuum of life. This Special was deemed a good educational tool for families to discuss, nature and its balance of life and death. There was one family on our street, the wealthier of most families, and I remember that my parents and the others in our row of houses decided that we all would make it an evening of color TV and education. Living color, indeed, we all sat around the TV (but at least 4 feet away from the set as no one was certain if color TV caused a form of brain cancer if you sat any closer) and watch a variety of animals decompose, some in slow motion, some with the speed of light and some dying and witnessing the amazing amount of energy taking place over, about and in the body. Some of the neighborhood parents, were having second thoughts once we saw the gruesome and gross decomposition of these animals, and some of the kids were grossed out, but the kind of gross out, you can not stop looking at. One or two parents dragged their kids back home swearing that National Geographic should be ashamed of themselves for airing something surely to cause nightmares, but the rest of the parents and the kids remained, fixated at the life and death of living things.
Devin Nunes, the Republican Chair of the House Intel Committee, and an ex Trump Campaign surrogate has decided to renew the successful GOP game of Benghazi, this time titling it the Secret Memo, and he along with the Trump White House are about to present to the American people, a new batch of propaganda, available to dazzle, dazzle, and mesmerize with shiny lights and lots of flash, and absolutely NO substance at all! Mr Nunes who has placed Trump above the law of the land and his majority of GOP anarchists are trying their hardest to prove that Robert Mueller is the enemy of the state and trying even harder to provide Trump with teflon layer after teflon layer. With no input from the Department of Justice, nor the FBI, no appreciation of the concerns of the minority party, Mr Nunes is about to try and fool this nation, as the GOP did so well, that we have another Benghazi on our hands and try to distract the real issue of criminality for and by Trump, from the public. (A public that still believes the truth is not necessary if you have a political agenda to achieve.
I am beside myself, I am afraid, I am angry, and I feel hopeless that in fact our democracy is about to decompose. When I heard about the treasonous acts that the Republican leadership is about to embark upon, all I could think about was the first time I watched a living thing die, and just how it imploded on itself, until the living thing became just a bunch of ashes, and knotty chunks of bone, with tons and tons of maggots climbing all over it. Today, for the very first time, I truly have no confidence that our democracy will survive. Today I am watching the flesh eaters, the bacteria, the vermin, the maggots destroy the body of democracy, and I am not only grossed out, but depressed, disillusioned and honestly am not sure how to stop this death.
