The Russians Know Our Secret.....

and they used it against us. They knew that we're a nation of 12 year-olds. Just check your Facebook feed or the comment section of any newspaper web site. This is a country of school yard bullies and gossips. Name calling children who giggle and point at the objects of their ridicule. Our culture is obsessed with who's kissing who, just like a bunch of middle schoolers. We get our information from the adult equivalent of cartoons in the form of cable news, twitter feeds and Facebook posts. We don't want to do our homework and will take every short cut or dodge to avoid studying or reading up on important subjects. Being children, we think the future doesn't exist so we don't have to plan for it. Right now we're paying the price for our immaturity. By the way, this is by no means intended as an insult to actual 12 year-olds who know better.

The Russians knew that's who we are and were able to use it to their advantage. And now we have a president who reflects that character to a T and is just as easily influenced and manipulated-maybe more so. That's why we need to grow up and grow up soon. I don't give a rat's ass about Stormy Daniels or any of Trump's disgusting personal behavior. It's just a side show. We might as well be sitting around singing Don and Stormy sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G. Meaningless distraction. All the while our pockets are being picked and the future we are ignoring is being sold-not necessarily to the highest bidder.

Try picking up the latest edition of the Federal Register to take a look at what Scott Pruitt is doing to environmental regulations, what Ryan Zinke is doing to our natural resources, what Betsy De Vos is doing to our educational system. Look at what Trump has done to our relationships with the world's other nations. Watch one of his "rallies" as he stirs up the other nasty kids on the playground. That's where the real issues reside. It's a horror story that will rival any Steven King novel-only it's real. Children of the Scorn.

I don't know if we have it in us as a nation to come back from the abyss that we have entered. We're going to find out in the next couple of months. No better place to start than by Mueller untangling the web of corruption and deception woven by Trump and his cronies. But that being said, don't count on the cavalry riding to the rescue. We need to do this for ourselves. We need to vote, we need to advocate, we need to stand up for what is right and to fight for what is right. If we don't, we will never put this sorry chapter in American history behind us and we will always be vulnerable to having it happen again.