All is not Well

 I read an article this morning wherein the writer, whose name I have already forgotten, expressed her dissatisfaction with the illusion being painted by democratic politicians, including the president and the vice president, that this is  a normal transfer of power from one administration to the next. We have been told endlessly that Trump is a fascist and should never hold the power of the presidency again, and yet they seem to have forgotten their own words. This is no normal transition. This is a transition from traditional democracy to outright autocracy. I suppose that some people are buying this hypocrisy, especially Trump voters who still do not see what is coming, but I certainly do not buy it. It seems that people who have put their reputations on the line and spoken out against Trump and his anti-democratic plans have done so in vain. This makes the situation all the more sad and depressing. Convictions so strongly expressed and then so blithely forgotten cannot, as it seems to me, have been true convictions in the first place. All is not well. This is no common transition. This is surrender. This is politics as usual in a time that demanded much, much more. We should have dished up what the Republicans served us for the last 4 years. Instead, many of our leaders of integrity have simply folded and curled up on the ground like beaten curs. I do not believe that America, as we have known it, will survive the next four years. We will carry with us, if we proceed as a country at all, an irremovable stain of cruelty and hatred as well as incompetency and irresponsibility globally. I mourn for the land of my birth.