The Roll-Off Dumpster as a Metaphor
Tomorrow, a 20-yard roll-off dumpster is going to appear on my driveway, in front of our detached garage, but with room to open its doors in front of that garage. This is the second time in 15 years we've had one of those delivered. Each time, we get brutal and discard whatever we haven't used and don't plan to use. We get rid of the useless, the excess, the unwanted by simply tossing it in that 20-yard box. Then the same truck that brought it here will take it away again and what we put in it will no longer be part of our lives. It's a ritual. Every so often, the accumulation of junk has to go. I don't care where it goes, as long as it's out of my sight.
We're going to be in a similar situation in national politics next year. Mountains of useless garbage and worthless excess have collected in D.C., and it's time to load it up and have it all hauled away so we can make a fresh start. We'll toss Donald Trump in there first, followed by the ugly group of right-wing sychophants surrounding him. A 20-yard roll-off dumpster, though, won't do the job. We're going to need a fleet of them brought in and then taken away after we've cleaned up the mess.
It's hard work moving 20 yards of garbage and trash. It's no fun. It will be even harder work shoving Trump and his immense cohort into the even larger dumpsters we'll need. We won't like the work so much, but we'll enjoy the result of our labors. With all the useless garbage, trash, and debris hauled off to some distant landfill, we'll be able to bring in the cleaning crew and start over with new furnishings and decorum. No longer will we have to look at the eyesore that the Trump administration has been. We'll just load it all up and let the able men in their trucks haul it off for disposal.
Right now, it looks difficult to manage, but it's just a matter of systematically identifying what is useless, noxious, or smelly and tossing it. So, lets put on our work clothes, don our gloves, and get to work on this Fall's clean-up project. We'll be tired at the end of it, but what a relief it will be to be rid of all that detritus and garbage! Let's all pitch in. Many hands, they say, make light work.
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... is to not buy the stuff in the first place. If you can do that, you've got it knocked.
