It’s sunny today, not quite as cold but still cold, and we’re under a gale warning, with gusts up to 40 mph. An invisible threat, like so many of them.
While the martial law in South Korea was very short-lived, the drama is not yet over. Many are calling for Pres. Yoon’s resignation.
Which seems reasonable.
I’ve got a case of the mushbrain today, my thoughts are mired neck-deep in a foggy muck. Do thoughts have necks?
Maybe.
Today, one of those stuck thoughts is about how the egos of men, almost exclusively men, so I’m not using that term generically, are careening humanity into certain disaster. Globally.
Because all of what we see now, from our election to South Korea, to so many countries in between, comes down to the greed and thirst for power of specific individuals, including the individuals who could have stood firm, stood behind the person they needed to stand behind to prevent the disaster, and worked for the greater good.
Some people are clear that’s of absolutely no interest to them, and they enjoy the opposite. I’m sure several men come to mind when I say that.
But then there are the Gavin Newsomes, men who put on morality like a smoking jacket they can take off at their leisure, who try to disguise their personal ambitions as something loftier.
Smarmy.
Personally I could not care less that Pres. Biden pardoned his son Hunter. Others have pardoned far, far, far worse and we’ve barely heard a peep. Donald pardoned his son in law’s father and now will nominate him as ambassador to France.
So give me a break about “broken promises.”
That someone like Newsome would leverage the torture republicans put the Biden family through for fun, to prosecute a crime that is almost never charged to try to paint himself as some kind of pillar of morality nauseates me. He knows the “decorum” days are over.
He’s not playing by those rules himself, because it wouldn’t be decorous to publicly abandon Pres. Biden in that way, anyway.
So now we are left in a position of facing what is coming without even people with the sense of duty or foresight to do their jobs and prioritize the well-being of their constituents over their own grasp for power.
What a time.
Republicans are, of course, responsible for the actions of republicans, we all know I’ve bleated that enough, but people like Newsome are responsible for themselves as well. At this point he looks like he’s doing the work of republicans for them.
And that’s a frustrating place to find ourselves.
Ego, which, at its very heart, is the embodiment of human greed–greed for attention; greed for power; greed for money–is fast on its way to destroying the planet.
And even the people who claim to be in politics for the “right” reasons seem consumed by it. What they can get for themselves. The spotlight, the roses thrown at their feet.
Give me a break.
I didn’t like Newsome before, this certainly hasn’t improved my image of him, I’ll tell you.
And look at that. Anger cancels mushbrain.
Duly noted.
Have a great Wednesday.
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