In the Arms of the Dragon

As I squirm and fidIget about the unbearable situation we are all living in right now, I think about a few months of hell I lived through in my newspaper days. I was a member of the Management Team and one morning our General Manager told us we were about to have a new publisher come onboard. Everyone knew him and everyone was critical of him. He was a man of few words and none of them were good.  The turmoil was tearing people apart.

However, during those few tumultuous weeks, there were many conversations that had questions and few answers among our Management Team members about who was staying and who was going. 

My good friend Rod gave me some advise that I thought was great: "There are times when things are going to get very tough. Someone will suddenly come into your job life - with authority and/or supreme control and you will have to decide to leave or "lie back in the arms of the dragon and submit to what shall be."

I've never forgotten that, but more importantly, I found that I just couldn't accept it, either. Maybe I'm too hard-headed to trust that damn dragon, but I have found that if I'm sure I'm right, I'd rather stay and fight.  

Today, the "political draon of the hour" is the president-elect and  I know millions of Americans have decided they'll just ride it out and see how bad it will get - not realizine he'll get stronger and more destructive as they are "riding it out."

That's wrong and I believe it with all my heart. We can never let this kind of man destroy the greatest experiment of democracy ever known to mankind!   We must gather the weapons on our constitution and fight back. Not one person believes we are on the wrong side of this problem and not one person believes we can't make it right again. 

I eventualy moved on from that job and I have no doubts I made the right decision at the time. As a matter of fact, he didn't last very long in that job, either.

And, I have no doubts we will win the battle over a gang of domestic terrorist who are attempting to prosecute a coup on our government. They are now our "enemy from within," and we will defeat them like all the others we have faced!

But, we dare not sit by and wait. The dragon isn't!