I am Gerry Buncher, and I AM a new addict. I AM Gerry Buncher, and I AM a history addict. I am Gerry Buncher, and I have promised myself to NEVER forget nor forgive the past, but to recall, reflect upon it, to insist that the present and the future, refrain from containing the virus and parasites of which the past had been riddled and fro which many of its lessons have died. “If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.” (Thomas Paine)
I am Gerry Buncher, and I demand that there be less about the truth, but more of a battle for its protection. The truth is not up for arbitration, long, arduous arguments, nor to be simply set aside as an inconvenience. The waste of time discerning fake from fact is only a fools game to permit folly and fantasy to prevail. “But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.” (Thomas Paine)
It is not just the arrogant, and aggressive men and women in the Trump Cabinet, Court, Crime Family who have decided that privilege and power are worth whoring themselves as non-thinkers. It IS also the deceit and the destruction of men like Mitch McConnell, and Paul Ryan, Devin Nunes and Mike Pence toward a democratic process; who have decided to obey permits their bottom lines to remain in the black, while the population they once pretended to serve rot with ounces and ounces of red. It is not just seemingly howling in the wind the wind at Trump, mulled sounds of frustration HE will never hear, but it IS time to slowly, quietly speak in the ears and look in the eyes of the anarchists whose only desire is their self-interests. “Reason obeys itself, and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.” (Thomas Paine) “When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.” (Thomas Paine)
We either personally witnessed or regaled in the stories of our immediate ancestors of the pros and cons of our government. We have often been misled with adulterated facts, excluded truths, and often times been told more Patriotic paintings and panoramas of our past, to enhance the value of government, but from my perspective there have been earnest etchings providing the function, purpose and proposed value that this government had tried for the creation of all men and women being equal and a genuine pursuit of happiness. With Trump and either is puppet master, or owner, Putin, and his Republican enablers; the government in which we find ourselves struggling to keep alive, there is nothing but dark shadows of doubt. “Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.” (Thomas Paine) Thomas Paine was an English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theorist and revolutionary. Gerry Buncher has become a political activist and is now driven to resist, and perhaps become a revolutionary! A famous quote from Thomas Paine, and sadly one which has resonated, much too loudly for me ever since the inception of Trump is: “These are the times that try men's souls.”
