Waiting For the Election, Making America Greta, Again

MY NEW BALL CAP says "Make America Greta Again", in all caps. You can get one for about twenty dollars on a website called "Etsy", same color, same font, but no flag. For that, you have to go to Wal Mart, or some such, get one, and sew it on yourself. Mine is twice as large, at least, as the one worn by Trumpers who unpatriotically do not think that America is great. Actually, I got two of the bright red beauties; one for myself, and, inexplicably, the lady who ordered mine gave hers to me as well. I intend to loan it out to deserving citizens, with the stipulation that it must be worn, and that wearing it must be proven by emailing me an endless series of selfies from smart phones. If it gets me into a few arguments or fights, or makes me a few new friends, so be it, nothing new about that. The hat proves that most Americans are illiterate. It rapidly became obvious to me that a very high percentage of the American people who look at my cap fail to realize that the word is "Greta", not "great". The right wing racist morons at my senior center, who inspired my acquisition, all said the same thing: "Well...uh..you finally came over to our side, didn't ya?" That, I had not counted on. After careful thought, I decided not to bother to disabuse them of their misapprehension; if they haven't learned to read by now, who am I to help them? Obviously, they are quite content with their impaired state. Greta Thunberg is, seemingly the most intelligent person on the planet; unless there are others who are sacrificing the entire planned lives for the sake of saving the planet. The time to push the panic button has long since come and gone; finally, a teenager from Sweden has pushed it, and may all the teenagers of the world walk out of all the public and private schools in the world, as often as need be, to attract the world's attention, and to force our moribund leadership to take action. Fondly we remember when Republicans cared; Nixon signed the EPA into existence, and Nixon signed the Clean Air Act. We know it can be done, by both ends of the political spectrum. Our leaders today seem to be saying to us that since they themselves are going to die soon anyway, they care little whether, or perhaps would even prefer, that we and all future generations die with them. Tragic, considering how easy it would be for, say, President Trump, to simply utter a single sentence: "If the environmental climate change wackos want to plant a trillion trees, and want to let the free market price oil and coal out of the market in favor of solar energy, hell, let's do it! I, Donald J. Trump, will even lead the way, since I get things done". A single sentence, and Trump redeems himself, and, believe it or not, gains some modicum of support from yours truly. But that may be far too much to expect from a man who can't even bring himself to say: "white supremacists are bad people".