Sorry. I’m a little drunk. And will get drunker while writing this.
The parallels to Neville Chamberlain in today’s White House debacle are astounding. But there is currently no Churchill on the horizon.
I have the same emotional sense that I’ve had when someone really close to me has died. But, in this case, it’s my country that is deceased.
We just booked a trip to Portugal. During the Bush/Iraq War years, when traveling to Europe, I practiced a few ruses to avoid public condemnation. I guess we’ll have to employ them again: First, wear Euro-looking shoes. Second, tell everyone you’re from Canada, eh!
It’s really not Trump. He’s too stupid to have pulled off the end of America. It’s the evil/intelligent minions who created that “2025” thing. Trump’s just the carnival barker. And when they’ve finally wrested control of everything, aided by AI to make this truly Orwellian, he’ll be cast aside.
I wish we could wait until November 2026, and the next round of House elections. But I fear that by that time the ability to have free and fair elections will also have been compromised.
I’ve written critically of the “good Germans” who turned away from the horrors taking place around them, and now I find myself in the same place, with absolutely no idea of what I can do.
Fortunately, two things give me hope: I’m old, so when there’s that knock on my door, I really don’t have that much time to sacrifice. And then there’s the Gaia thing, which makes all of what we are currently going through seem pretty irrelevant.
Tomorrow we’ll wake up and the sun will be shining. Of course, we know that will not always be the case, it’s only got about 4.5 billion years left. But, we can rejoice in the thought that, relative to that long term, we’ve just got an instant to endure our current state.
Cheers!
©2025, David B Bucher
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