Limiting Lunacy

IT HAS BEEN NEARLY A YEAR since the now infamous election of twenty twenty, made infamous by Trump and his angry, delusional supporters, and their insane claims of election theft. The year has passed fast. Young people think life is long; as we grow older, we learn the truth. Second grade passed much more rapidly than first grade, you'll recall. With less than a month before the November third election anniversary arrives, it is presumably safe to say that on November third, twenty twenty one, no one will have presented for public scrutiny even a single shred of evidence that the election was in fact stolen from Trump. And of course, no one ever will. There can be no evidence for an event which did not occur. The amazing thing is that a huge majority of conservatives, Republicans, and Trump supporters still insist on clinging to their grand illusion, their big lie, this far removed from the night of the election, when Trump formally articulated his great prevarication, if Trump can ever be credited for "articulating" anything, other than nonsense. One might have expected it to have died out by now, but it now begins to seem as if it never will, that the Trump crowd will bear their burden to their graves, like confederate soldiers. Due process and basic human decency and morality mean nothing to Trump and those who support him. But its wroth repeating that when someone accuses someone else of a crime, the accused person or persons must be identified, and the evidence for the crime must be presented when the accusation is made, not later. That's basic justice, but is ignored by Trump people. There is a limit to the amount of time the accusor has to present proof the crime; one year is more than enough time. Now is the time, now is long past the time for Trump and his fellow liars and traitors to admit that their claim of election theft was false, and for them to apologize for all the trouble they caused. The most shocking aspect of the entire Trump phenomenon, from the time he announced for the presidency, to the Access hollywood tape, through his entire insane, chaotic presidency, to the January 6 insurrection, to Trump's insane present attepmt to claim "executive privilege" to prevent relevant documents proving his criminality from being exposed, is the utter and complete abandonment of civility, decency, sanity, and fundamental morality by Trump and his seventy five million or so followers. Never could such a phenomenon have been seen as even remotely possible in the United States, so similar is it to the Hitler NAZI movement in Germany in the nineteen thirties. We must now accept the shocking reality that in any society, in any country, no matter how supposedly educated and civilized, it is possible for millions of people as a group to abandon senity and moral decency in the service of a twisted, misguided ideology, if a sufficient number of gullible people can be lured into emrbracing it. No more malignant movement has ever maniffested anywhere in the world, at anytime in history, than the Trump movement in modern America. For this, we Americans should still be very ashamed, and very frightened, for the malignancy has not yet been destroyed. God willing, it will be.