been responsible for lies, fraud – those complicit utterly ashamed
Adapted from the line:
He has been responsible for lies, scandal and fraud on an industrial scale. And all those who have been complicit should be utterly ashamed.
And … we aren’t talking about anyone in the United States.
The sand ran out on Boris Johnson and Great Britain is looking for ‘Someone who can rebuild trust, heal the country, and set out a new, sensible and consistent economic approach to help families.’
As Patrick Henry said, “Caesar had his Brutus — Charles the First, His Cromwell — And George the Third, may profit by their example”
I leave it to the reader to imagine who I am thinking about.
But there has been a feller here in the United States, who has been responsible for lies, scandal and fraud on an industrial scale.
And all those who have been complicit should be utterly ashamed.
the reality honestly is that the world is bloody messy
Adapted from this quote:
“The honest reality is that the world is bloody messy. And yet, amongst all the complexity, we still often see issues portrayed in a black and white way. We must not allow the risk of a self-fulfilling prophecy to become an inevitable outcome for our region.“
expect government properly, competently and seriously
In the 2017 book, Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign, the author, Jonathan Allen, relates that as the election returns came in and results piled up against the Democrats, former President Bill Clinton settled on the comment that, “It’s just like Brexit” meaning mostly that the result was 1) unexpected and 2) American voting trends followed voting trends in Great Britain.
This week, Prime Minister Boris Johnson is watching his government officials resign and when his officials resign, they give a press statement on why.
On Monday, the Honorable Rishi Sunak, MP and Chancellor of the Exchequer (more or less the Secretary of Treasury in the US) resigned and stated that:
“The public expect government to be conducted properly, competently and seriously.“
From which it can be understood that Mr. Sunak feels that the current government in Great Britain fails at all three.
Maybe the US again will follow GB just like Brexit.
Maybe we will all stand up and demand that our government to be conducted properly, competently and seriously.
Gun control?
Control the guns?
Inflation?
Gas prices?
Real immigration reform?
Cost of living?
Cost of a place to live?
We got real problems and we have a government who cannot play well in a sandbox at recess.
Seriously!
Right now I don’t care which party is in charge just so long as they manage to grow up and conduct government properly, competently and seriously.
Anyone who can say that they will going forward gets my vote.
I have got to get off this political commentary track and back to the beach and words.
This is not what I intended this blog to be.
Maybe if I ignore that lack of proper attitude, competence and seriousness in our Government I will be better off.
Why do I feel that is what they folks in Government are counting on?
combination of silence panic upheaval that I didn’t choose
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There was a lot of big talk during the pandemic as we used that eerie combination of silence and panic to re-evaluate our priorities. Fear of change evaporates when everywhere you look there is upheaval you didn’t choose.
Ms. Williams writes, “To regret that a decision wasn’t made sooner can be seen as reverse “what if?” thinking; even while it is painful to think of time wasted and bad situations endured, it is psychologically protective in that it reinforces the decision.”
The people of America responded to the news of Kennedy’s assassination and the continuing televised reports of every subsequent happening with a state of shock that went beyond mourning to something approaching melancholia, a serious collapse of self-esteem. With the assassination, something more than a man had been lost, something more abstract and more compelling – a part of America’s faith in itself as a good society.
The line, something more than a man had been lost, something more abstract and more compelling – a part of America’s faith in itself as a good society, hit me.
America’s faith in itself as a good society.
I admit much of that faith was a hypocrisy.
But it was a useful hypocrisy.
Recent political turmoil over, well, politics and Covid and any number of other issues of late have ripped the scab off the hypocrisy and left folks, not wondering if we have lost a part of America’s faith in itself as a good society but now QUESTIONING even if America was, is or can be, a good society.
I like to think that Mr. Lincoln was right when he said the United States was, “… the last best hope of earth.”
Maybe Mr. Lincoln is right, its just that the bar to being recognized as the last best hope of earth was a lot lower than I ever thought.
Again, the passage quoted from Ms. Godwin is about the United States after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
The time has come for Americans of all races and creeds and political beliefs to understand and to respect one another.
So let us put an end to the teaching and the preaching of hate and evil and violence.
Let us turn away from the fanatics of the far left and the far right, from the apostles of bitterness and bigotry, from those defiant of law, and those who pour venom into our Nation’s bloodstream.
As Mr. Lincoln put it in his December, 1862 Annual Address to Congress, “We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.”
The Fourth of July, 1916 (The Greatest Display of the American Flag Ever Seen in New York, Climax of the Preparedness Parade in May) by Childe Hassam (1859-1935)
