The chaos and confusion will flourish in the Senate even as the men and women sitting in the august body of US power pay homage to Senator John McCain. They will speak of him as the Maverick, as the sometimes eager individual ready to cross the aisle, to help create fair and equitable laws for Americans and not kowtowing to the political parties of America. For a mere moment in time, reflection on the positive actions of a Senator will be shared, falling from the same mouths who immediately, after wishing hopes and prayers will renew their animosity toward democracy and justice for all. John McCain will be remembered by some for his duty to America as a captured POW, fighting adversity and torture, others will recall his feisty fixation on supporting his constituents, and others will take all of that into consideration as well as his reticence in being brave enough to argue the merits of Country before Party during his last years, alive. I am torn, as I found this man to be a real hero once, but watched him succumb to another disease, not his hideous, and horrendous bout with cancer, but the disease of self-preservation politics. I extend my condolences to his family. Death is hard to digest and difficult to deal with.
But here we are, ALL of us, still alive facing our own disease, a destructive, deadly ploy to erode and erase the already weakened democracy of our nation. Perhaps, with his passing, John McCain has earned a status of an iconic Senator, but with his passing, who is there in the Republican Party to take the mantle, to find the guts, to become brave enough to fight for the rights of ALL Americans, and begin to stand firm against an empty, needy, narcissistic, angry immature man such as Trump? All of the Senators from both sides of the aisles will praise the work of John McCain, and as is usual they will mourn for a minute and forget the words they used of righteousness, integrity, and pursuit of happiness, and just repeat the useless and nonsensical words of Trump. McCain’s war of words with Trump has found its resting place, but Trump's words of injustice, ignorance, and intolerance will still resonate and cause chaos and confusion.
We ALL know, at least those of us who honestly have a connection to the continuity of our Constitution, that the criminal acts, the attempt to conspire with an enemy foreign power, and the constant lies told by anyone Trump is a disease aimed to kill. We ALL know that shaming, blaming, or naming Trump directly means very little, as Trump lives in his imaginary Bubble World, and no one or nothing will get him out of that psychotic environment. So, perhaps as the GOP Senators recite their eulogies toward John McCain, we take their words which most likely will talk about fairness, heroics, and patriotism and ask each and every Republican Senator, why not behave the same way in which you have praised John McCain. Trump will not change for the better and indeed will become worse. The only hope we have is to find one, two three Republican Senators who actually mean the words of sympathy they use to describe John McCain, and stop America from dying of a Russian made, Republican assisted cancer!
