Watching the News

SOME PEOPLE get so angry, frustrated, and depressed about the world that they refuse to watch the news, and I can understand that. But I wonder how or whether they stay informed. I often turn on the news with reluctance, but I turn it on. Yesterday I turned it on and was immediately assaulted by two stories which, like many news stories these days, made me questioon the health and future of our beloved U.S.A. A big bright yellow Penske freight truck was parked in a Home Depot parking lot, near a group of brown skinned gentlemen, assembled to apply for work. Suddenly the door on the back of the truck slides up,and out jump a group of black clad uber-armed I.C.E. stormtroopers, who immediately sread out and began hassling the guys looking for work. Ironic. I didn't pay enough attention to the story to find out what exactlly happend, how many Latinos were rounded up and arrested, incarcarcrated at "Alligator Alcatraz" or whatever,and deported. didn't need to. I knew what was going on, the News cast made that very clear. Without even one commercial, amazingly, the pretty news lady turned to the next story; a gerrymandering redistricting has broken out in the United States, and has spread from Texas to every state in the union whose geopraphical shape even remotely allows for potential gerrymandering. A nationwide civil war, red versus blue, progressive versus conservative, to own the House of Representatives now and forevermore by stealing it by cheating. It disgusted me watching the television report about it. It disgusts and angers me to think about it, and to write about it.Its a close call as to which of the two news stories, network television exposes about major current trends in Today's America, is the more disgusting, the more worthy of rage and despair. Our modern American Gestapo, nothing less, Trump's SS Stormtroopers, ravaging and pillaging American society at the behest of the usurping fascist tyrant and his devout cult followers. The I.C.E. police roughing and rounding up, incarcerating, and deporting good hard workers,from an America which desperately, and I mean desperately needs them and the work they offer. Suicide right on stage, as Mick Jagger sang. America, self harming. Fifteen illegals rounded up in an ICE raid, eleven or twelve million more to go. Trump can spend his entire presidency, three and a half more long, nightmarish years, celebrating and bragging about his macho "immigration policy". No matter how many several thousand human beings are arrested, locked up,and kicked out of the country without the slightest trace of due process, the number remaing here, of good, hard working undocumented people, will remain approximately unchanged. You can count on it. Misery and chaos for its own cruel sake, thanks be to MAGA and Trump. The gerrymandering was will, we must hope, burn itself out in rage and fatigue, and from its ashes a new and effecive system and process will emerge to replace gerrymandering with good, fair redistricting. But lord, why are we putting ourselves through this? Have we as a people, a society, really decayed morally this much? A new federal law, an unbiased non partisan redistricting committee and process, would be good for all. Now Trump wants a sudden census to count only white citizens, or whomever. Fascism, encroaching. America wants a pathway to citizenship for gainfully employed undocumented workers and their families. Simply document them, and put 'em back to work. So simple, so easy, so obvious, so prosperous and profitable for the nation. The problem with big problems is that the solutions to them are often so obvious, simple and logical that their instigators, those in power who created the problems in the first place, tend to profit from our big problems, and tend to be people who, in any event, are not even close to having either the intelligence or morality to implement any solutions, good, orotherwise.