They are Killing Us
Still I Hope!
Originally published on Red Blue now Purple,
They are killing us. Our government, insurance companies, big banks, corporations.
Our medical premiums went up two-hundred and sixty-nine percent since April. Yes, April of 2026. Many of us must choose between lifesaving meds and food, or don’t have enough money for either. See link. Our co-pays doubled in some cases. Drugs that were covered, not anymore! ‘Prior auth’s’ take longer than the patient has to live. I know enough medical professionals that have told the truth about this and many other things, under the cloak of anonymity for fear of losing their job.
A truth that does not get heard. Been going on for decades.
Countless victims unheard.
Getting worse. A dysfunctional congress and government whose main interest is protecting their own asses and re-election to the power they crave for their own use. Maybe not all but one is too many.
Children have abandoned or ‘ghosted’ their parents. Honor thy father and mother has left somewhere in all of the ‘States,’ no longer united. Not so much in Asian cultures that are not Christian. They still respect the concept of family and elder.
We have a ‘president,’ Mr. Orange, who denigrates and destroys matters in almost every context…
Morality.
Truth.
Compassion.
Unsurpassed greed.
Rule of Law.
Common human decency.
Just to name a very few Universal Laws and Truths it will take, what once was the greatest nation ever on earth, decades if not more to restore, if ever.
The devil is indeed in the details.
A president making so many profits off his endless array of ‘no conflict of interest’ interests. Enough in one case to feed a hundred thousand homeless people or more for a year and provide affordable housing to tens of thousands of others. Since his second term this endeavor has made him four hundred and twenty-five million dollars on just one ‘deal’. Oh, it was in the mainstream media a few days ago, way down the list of headlines. The source? According to either CBS or ABC. I don’t care since our ‘media’ follows the whims and ideologies of its billionaire owners and whatever ‘spin’ they want.
He has no moral compass.
He just lies and lies, even about his own lies. Now it’s common for anyone, especially politicians.
I know some who still compliment him, though their ranks are showing the divisiveness he sowed throughout this great country. They are turning on not only him, but each other. His good deeds are even sullied by his hidden agenda of the moment. Many friends and family supported or still support him. They are still my friends and family and forever will be.
Still, I hope. As the son of a well decorated POW in the Pacific Theater of WWII in the Philippines and Japan, my father had hope to the day he made the Great Leap, but he acknowledged the possibility and his fear of anarchy.
I give you January 6th and the resulting pardons of criminals of pure treason as a prime example of his fear coming home to roost.
I am glad he is in heaven.
So why hope? Why do I?
Because I believe in the Creator in all His Omnipotent and Omnipresent Triune-ness. I believe in His Will, not my own – though those that try to follow His will find more obstacles today than ever before. But if you can turn your will over to His and your life to Him, it gets a heaven of a lot easier.
This I know. Period.
And as for hope, you cannot see it, because if you do, as Paul says, it isn’t hope. Faith inspires hope. Both provide for Love Divine. Endlessly.
Boils down to the two commandments He left us…
1. Love Him
2. Love every single other person created in His image and Likeness, including and maybe most importantly – thy enemy.
I am too often weary, the effects of chronic incurable neurological disease and a host of other medical and financial disasters that I could not control, because they were uncontrollable.
And because I still subject myself on rarer and rarer occasion to the ‘mainstream’ media.
But damn, I will never give up on those two rules. I will stick to my Faith, not the Church – the denomination I belong to with its millennia of horrors – you can start with their pedophilia and worse, their coverup, and go on with a list of history that makes anyone squirm.
I will stay to fight it out. Even inside my own denomination, Lord help me.
Just like Dad.
As my Godfather, an amazing Diocesan priest once told me…
You do your best and the hell with the rest.
Clement
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Yes, the hearts bleed. Photo compliments of Clement Charles LLC.