America Is No More!

 First, they came for the People of Color, but I was not a person of color, so I did not speak up for them.  Then, they came for the homosexuals, but I was not a homosexual, so I did not speak up for them. Then they came for the Muslims, but I was not a Muslim,  so I did not speak up for them. Then they came for the Mexicans, but I was not a Mexican, so I did not speak up for them. Then they came for me. . . and there was no one left to speak up for me.

America is not a very nice place to live anymore. You utter a slip of the tongue and you could wake up in a violent jail in some distant country. You see, the current administration has tossed out our  Rule of Law and the president and his cabinet have taken over. Today, they told America they will consider sending Americans who get in trouble with our law to a foreign prison.

If you are a political blogger like me, it is a very dangerous hobby. And, it is a hobby I've decided is unhealthy to "swim upstream" against, every day. Plus, the look on the faces of those MAGA piranha are very convincing. 

MAGA politics is getting very serious and even deadly, at times. They have their hearts set on converting America into an authoritarian/dictatorial/autocratic nation and at my age, and with family, I have no fight left in me. Recently, the sister of one of our U.S. Supreme Court Justices was threatened with a pipe bomb in her mail box.  The threat was from "someone who didn't like the decision handed down against the president." That is too much!

Maybe some day things will be different -  a country worth fighting for again! But not now. I can compromise my beliefs to some extent - but not to this extent! Nobody can call what we are living under a democracy today! Not in anyway! We're living in the 1930s Germany.

1930s Germans sat on their hands, too.