"For now we see through a glass, darkly..."
“For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.” - 1 Corinthians 13:12
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The glass has been cleaned this week and all can now see clearly. I woke up early this morning reflecting on this last week and the daily press briefings from the White House. For anyone who watched the briefings, which often lasted well over an hour and on Good Friday well over two, it has become clear that our President is ill.
Regardless of your political leanings we all must face the truth of what we are witnessing. Many of us have witness this in our own families. The decline of a loved one, the sometimes-slow realization that something is wrong. A mother, a father, aunt or uncle that we love, that we have known all our lives, begins to decline.
Once the realization is accepted, we can look back and see that the signs were there sometime ago, but it was easy to disregard them as ‘one off’s’, or a bad day that all of us may have experienced ourselves. But finally, it becomes clear, the glass is now clean and we see. Our loved one is experiencing dementia.
Dementia is a rather harsh word and there is the medical definition and there is the common vernacular use of the word. I use the word with some trepidation, but none the less that is what it is. People are different and the individual signs may differ, however there is a commonality.
What America witnessed over this last week was a President who could not focus, who day after day repeated the same rehearsed themes and strayed off topic repeatedly. A President who could not answer even simple, direct questions from the press. Certain words were cues that triggered almost identical ramblings.
For instance, if the word China was in a question, regardless of what was asked, we would hear of his trade deal, his great relationship with Xi, the billions of dollars we were taking in on tariff, etc. He was not answering the question but rather he went to his mental flash cards, took out the China card, and off he went. This is but one illustration.
We are in a crisis that is deadly, is economically debilitating, and is an existential threat to our country. We now have a President that is unable to do even the basic duties of the office. This is not a drill.
In great times of peril our country, our citizens, our elected representatives must take action. We have done this before in the history of our nation and we must now act. President Trump must be removed from office. This is not a political screed; this is the survival of our nation and our lives.
Some will say this is just political hyperbole, a partisan rant, but it is the truth. We all saw it last week. It is time we put away our childish partisanship and take action.
God help us if we don’t.
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