Last weekend, I caught a little of the coverage from
the anti-gun rally in the States, and I was encouraged. I was reminded of
something songwriter Jon Brooks said recently. He said he’s lost faith in the
adults, but the kids may save the world. I agree, and watching that rally last
Saturday I was cautiously optimistic about the next generation. I listened to
a lot of well-spoken, intelligent kids speak out against the NRA and gun
violence. They are participating.
The other day I turned on the tube, and there was a story
about how former VP Joe Biden had suggested that, if he were in high school, he
would have taken a Donald Trump “out behind the gym” and beaten the crap out of
him. It’s a strange turn of events when I’m rooting for Joe Biden. This of
course prompted the cowardly and boastful Rump to counter with something like:
“yeah, you just try!” That’s what I like to hear from my supposed leaders;
childish schoolyard threats of violence. Perhaps they need to put something in the food on Capital Hill to lower
the testosterone levels. Then I began to think, hey, maybe we’re on to
something here. Rump is always talking about his leadership and bravery. HE’D
have gone into that school, unarmed, to take out the shooter, HE’S the tough
guy who’s going to make America great again, blah, blah, blah.
What if we scheduled a televised, pay-per-view event: Rump
Vs: Bannon? It would be The Battle of the Blowhards, The Rose Garden Rumble, The
Cage Fight Clash of the Morons. For fifty bucks – and what American wouldn’t
cough up $50 for this kind of entertainment – dress these two clowns up like sumo
wrestlers (can you imagine!), slather some oil on them so they’re both slippery,
and put them in a cage out in the Rose Garden for a no holds barred fight to
unconsciousness. The last man standing wins. My money is on Bannon, but we all
know Rump fights dirty, so it’s really anybody’s call. The catharsis alone
would be healthy and, I predict that hundreds of millions worldwide would
gladly pay for that kind of entertainment. Hell, we could probably put a little
dent in the national debt selling tickets. Just brainstorming
here.
A friend of mine put up a clip on Facebook the other
day, and it had to do with the heroic actions of an old man who ran an
orphanage in Nazi Germany during the holocaust. Although given the opportunity
to escape, he remained with the 192 children in his care until they were all eventually
exterminated at the Treblinka death camp. I know there are heroes in our
world today, but I never hear about them. All I hear about are the fools and
liars. Take Rump out of the equation, and like a toothache, or a hemorrhoid, the
immediate discomfort will abate, but the underlying problem will persist. Why did
such a large percentage of Americans believe that this bonehead would save the
United States? We have a much bigger problem than Donald Trump, and it's aglobal epidemic. I
was a spectator; I never saw this coming. Shame on me. Democracy is not a
spectator sport.
Final thoughts. Much has been made in the news about
the Cambridge Analytica scandal and the shocking revelation that Facebook did
not have our backs. Wake up and smell the coffee people! A nineteen-year-old in Markham Ontario successfully hacked into the
Canada Revenue Agency a few years back. I gave up the illusion that my
“information” was safe a long time ago. With cameras and computers everywhere,
anyone could be listening in on our lives. Remember, this is the golden age of
information ….
Siri, what is my
neighbor’s social insurance number?
- Written by Jamie Oppenheimer c 2018 ALL
RIGHTS RESERVED
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