WILDERNESS VOICE: MADNESS GONE HAYWIRE

 

MADNESS GONE HAYWIRE

Spending so much time on Trump is beginning to seem divisive and diversionary. It’s time to slow down, read between the lines, and consider some common denominators: MAGA MADNESS HAS GONE HAYWIRE and while Loss of Individual Dignity, Sovereignty and Accountability: AMERICA IS BURNING its own life-long bridges and turning its citizens into herd minded automatons (programable robots). Its National and International image as a standard for democratic equality and freedom of speech is becoming a mask that can no longer hide an ugly truth. “We The People” have been long divided in many ways. And as America’s Big Stick Strategy is becoming little more than an annoying toothpick, it has revealed what’s been hiding in the shadows. With the notion of free enterprise spearheading the nation NOTHING; PERSON, PLACE, OR THING has ever been sacred or safe. Through art, music and more, the truth has always been. Consider the likes of Jackson Brown who risked his position in the music industry by responding to events during the Nixon and Reagan era with the lyrics of his 1986 song “Lives in the balance.”

“I've been waiting for something to happen for a week or a month or a year with the blood in the ink of the headlines and the sound of the crowd in my ear. You might ask what it takes to remember when you know that you've seen it before. Where a government lies to a people and a country is drifting to war. And there's a shadow on the faces of the men who send the guns to the wars that are fought in places where their business interest run. On the radio talk shows and T.V.’s you hear one thing again and again: How the U.S.A. stands for freedom and we come to the aid of a friend. But who are the ones that we call our friends: These governments killing their own? Or the people who finally can't take any more and they pick up a gun or a brick or a stone! There are lives in the balance! There are people under fire! There are children at the cannons! And there is blood on the wire! There's a shadow on the faces of the men who fan the flames of the wars that are fought in places where we can't even say their names! They sell us the President the same way they sell us our clothes and our cars. They sell us everything from youth to religion the same time they sell us our wars. I want to know who the men in the shadows are! I want to hear somebody asking them why! They can be counted on to tell us who our enemies are but they're never the ones to fight or to die! And there are lives in the balance! There are people under fire! There are children at the cannons! And there is blood on the wire!” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_Ujtu4Yqgs

With songs like this and more, some say this country dodged a lethal revolutionary bullet in the 60’s. Some say we’re currently hinging on the same thread. The Whitehouse already gathered military leaders stating defending homeland is the military’s “most important priority;” should use American cities as “training grounds;” use federal crackdown on crime in major cities (New York and Chicago) as necessary due to an oncoming “war from within.” And it’s never been just about immigrants. Public officials (Minneapolis) are being indicted for getting in the way. Retired vets (Senator Kelly) are being brought to court for inciting insurrection among the military ranks. And banks (JPMorgan) are being sued for refusing to provide customers with financial services because of personal ideologies. Warning: While MAGA MADNESS HAS GONE HAYWIRE and citizens are becoming automatons, The Monroe Doctrine is back in play and NOTHING! No PERSON, PLACE, OR THING is sacred or safe.