It took a while for Kelly (John Kelly, Donald Trump's former White House chief of staff) to reach this point, though he's taken some steps in this direction. Last year, for example, former Defense Secretary James Mattis, wrote a rather extraordinary rebuke of Trump, condemning the then-president for being divisive, immature, and cavalier about abusing his powers. Soon after, Kelly publicly endorsed Mattis' criticisms.
Kelly added at the time, "I think we need to look harder at who we elect. I think we should look at people that are running for office and put them through the filter: What is their character like? What are their ethics?" By January, Kelly saw far less need for subtlety, accusing Trump of "poisoning" people's minds. Kelly added that Trump is "a very, very flawed man ... who has got some serious character issues." (MSNBC)
So some, now, have found an inner voice of courage, a book deal, perhaps a long look in the mirror and in viewing their reflection back, seeing nothing but a miserable accumulation of atoms! This blog, however, is NOT about the change of will from abetting and sheltering a wanna-be FASCIST/DICTATOR, to becoming a truthteller, pretending that all along all you were doing is trying to keep him less TOXIC. This blog is concentrating on two sentences within Kelly’s MIA CULPA, "I think we need to look harder at who we elect. I think we should look at people that are running for office and put them through the filter: What is their character like? What are their ethics?" (John Kelly)
It seems there has been little TO DO, in regard to the character of many to most people who somehow become a POLITICIAN, act as puppets once a POLITICIAN, or desire the power, pomp and circumstance and privileges that once they become a POLITICIAN, become as necessary to survive as oxygen and water. This blog is asking questions as to why if becoming a POLITICIAN should require a myriad of questions, why is it that we leave it to that same ILK of POLITICIAN to ask the important questions and answer them. My stomach churns and my gut burns just reading the NOISE of the day as the majority of current Republicans, act like the THREE Monkey’s, having seen nothing, hearing nothing and worse, saying nothing, and the acid reflux jumps out of my esophagus as way too many Democrats only seem to push hard enough NOT to find a TOTAL TRUTH. John Kelly is the latest NON-HERO to crawl out from under the Trump ruins, and I ask SO WHAT!
