Deja Vu

I did not get out today. My excuse is that it was another warm day. But that isn't the truth. I was preoccupied with the upcoming televised hearing. 

As I have been watching the hearings, I keep getting a deja-vu feeling., as if I had heard this, or read it somewhere before. When I was a teenager I was really in to a lot of counter culture literature. I read things like "Steal This Book", "The Whole Earth Catalog", and "The Anarchist's Cookbook" along with many less notable and much less reputable writings. Mostly I thought it was amusing. I really didn't want to build any bombs or steal sodas or cigarettes from vending machines. I just thought it was cool that I could find out how to do it. Back then, counter culture seemed to be more about getting high and discussing things we knew nothing about, than it was about starting civil wars. I wonder what the people who cooked up this whole insurrection plan had been reading back in the 70's. Looks like some people took it much more seriously than I did. 

The end of that story is that I then went off to Bible College and never did build a bomb or steal cigarettes. 

I never tried to overthrow the Constitution either.

Yet even with strong deja vu going on, I am left with jaw dropping amazement with every hearing. Mostly at how much of it was done brazenly out in the open and nobody stopped it. But then, during the years of Trump, we hardly knew which nightly scandal to pay attention too. 

And the Secret Service? Just because of where they serve, these are men of power. They know how it works. The excuse they are giving for not turning over the texts is ludicrous. They aren't even trying to make reasonable people believe them. The attitude seems to be more "Whadda you gonna do aboudit?" Absolutely astounding that this could be happening. And there is no guarantee that it is going to be stopped. 

Back in the day, counter-culture talk among the people I was around centered on ending the war and legalizing pot. No one wanted anything more ambitious than to build a cabin and catch rainbow trout. We were children pretending we knew what we were playing with.

These people, republicans? They want to set up Gilead meets Animal Farm. They really don't want the power so that they can govern. They proved that in the Trump years. They want it so they can enrich themselves. 

I feel so much more about this subject than I can adequately communicate here. Negative things mostly, like anger, disgust, anxiety. How can so many people with no respect for Democracy be in power? How did they take over a whole party? Why are so many people fooled by them?

I've told you more about my misguided youth than I had planned to.  

I'm sorry about this rambling nonsense. I am just blown away by what has happened..