Opinion/Editorial
HALLELUJAH
From the lyrics of that Leonard Cohen song that’s the title to this Op/Ed: “I did my best, it wasn’t much, I couldn’t feel, so I tried to touch. I’ve told the truth. I didn’t come to fool you. And even though it all went wrong I’ll stand before the Lord of Song with nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah.”
The sweeping winds of change are coming to the shores, mountains, and prairies of where you reside, to the shores, to the seas, land, and lakes. Those mental canyons we all stand and peer down into become restive and movement begins to abound below. If one stares down into that abyss long enough then that abyss begins to stare back. What must be done to prepare for what is coming? The nation has become quite used to being taken care of in so many ways over the years. Taken care of like no civilization has ever been before on the planet, and of all the things coming it is the complacency that has caused a major part of the population to be lulled into comfortable quietude and universal safety. This causal complacency will fall as the first price to be paid for being fooled into believing that following one bellicose, old, white, and dementedly damaged man is soon to be charged.
Will it be a withdrawal of vaccinations for all the school kids so that those horrible old diseases will return, like measles, polio, and worse? Will it be the dissolving of the FDIC so there’s no security in the deposits the nation’s population has so willingly and trustingly placed in bankers and financial households? Will it be Canada and Mexico closing their borders to all trade, along with China, bringing on not a recession but a full depression overnight? Will it be a conversion of the military and police into Gestapo-like uniformed louts and barbarians arresting and imprisoning all those who disagree with the self-declared kind of the USA? All of those things are being discussed, to the astonishment of so many who heard about such things but never dreamed that they could be put into action. This is the same refrain that came out of Nazi Germany from all the Jews that stayed behind when Hitler was coming to power and saying such terrible things in public speeches and at huge rallies. Will it be the gathering together of more than a million people and putting them in work or concentration camps where families, children, education, health, and almost life itself will be destroyed before those husks of the gathered are dumped outside American borders?
“It’s a Wonderful Life” played across televisions all over the country as Christmas of 2024 came upon all. In that movie, Jimmy Stewart played the man who fought for the regular people, the downtrodden, and the real working men and women of his community. Mr. Potter was the other force of true evil, selfishness, wealth,h and coldness to the point of death. Most everyone who used to watch that movie, year after year as long as all of us can remember, cheered for Jimmy and his guiding angel named Clarence. But what happened as this new force of populist awful leadership took over? Today, a huge number of the population are cheering for Mr. Potter and his offering of a slave existence way of life. To be owned is to be better off than being penniless or dead is the unspoken mantra of our new times as the mass media has convinced the general public that the Jimmy Stewart party, the Democrats, are the members of the ‘dark state’ even though it is the billionaires who’ve been allowed to take over ownership of most of the country and that same mass media. The nation became convinced that things were not good enough and that wealth, comfort, and having plenty were a form of enforced poverty and not enough.
Those things written here are all true, in presentation. January 20th is coming just up ahead, however, and it remains to be seen if the insanity being offered by this soon-to-enter leadership will really be implemented. Are we all really mixed-race and immigrant children of earlier immigrants and living in denial of that or are we the Jews, waiting for a time when of course insanity will not be fully applied to our lives, or to the end of them? The great American experiment is about to show proof to the world that such enormous senile idiocy can be absorbed by such a great huge and successful culture or how the very system that allows full control to a majority can make a decision to actually commit suicide.
Again, to end this article, Leonard Cohen’s work: “Now I’ve heard there was a secret chord, that David played and it pleased the Lord, but you don’t really care for music, do ya? It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth, the minor fall, the major lift, the baffled king composing Hallelujah”.
