Our Humpty Dumpty Government

(Vintage Uncle Sam Humpty Dumpty Doll)

 Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.

Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.

All of our Congress,

Women and Men,

Couldn't put Humpty together again!

This is for those of you who have been observant -- and even those who have not been -- of what the current administration, with the complicity of the current Republican/Conservative-controlled Congress, has been up to lately. These are only some of the things.

Update: The list I had posted here has been removed. I guess I didn't give proper credit, and I cannot locate the original. Here is a site that will help you locate any of the over 4,000 Bills and Resolutions currently before Congress: Bills and Resolutions

This morning, POTUS signed an executive order to review any national monument created since 1996. This will turn over at least 100,000 acres of federal land to the states involved. According to the president, he wishes these lands be turned back, ultimately freeing them for development and economic uses, i.e., drilling, mining, grazing, etc. “...some of these areas were put off limits for traditional uses, like farming, ranching, timber harvest, mining, oil and gas exploration, fishing, and motorized recreation....” The Washington Post

One can check the news almost hourly and find another example of the attempts to dismantle and/or completely destroy many of our treasured institutions, laws, and civil rights, as well as placing individuals in charge of them who have no experience or ability in managing them.

It is understood that the 2018 elections are influencing many in Congress. But the main culprits are the big money donors who threaten to withdraw their backing if their needs are not met. If the 15% Corporate Tax bill that the president requested passes, we will see even more of our freedoms disappear, as more cuts will be necessary to make up for the lost tax revenues.

Totalitarianism is an arrangement of state power in which the ruling elite control the conditions of political and social existence while subverting the authority of individuals.

If any of you have not read The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, or seen the 1990 movie by the same name, I urge you to watch the upcoming TV series by the same name. Season 1 starts today on Hulu. It's a tale of what life would be like (especially for women) in the future under a fundamentalist, theocratic regime. It gives one chills to think that this is where we are headed if those in charge of our government today have their way.

(PicMonkey Collage)

Here's praying that POTUS doesn't get so obsessed with his new-found "power" that he decides to order a military strike on North Korea without first getting the approval of Congress. He didn't ask before bombing Syria. 

The only way to start to put Humpty back together again is to begin by voting out of office in 2018 some of the Congressional culprits who are guilty of being accomplices to the current administration.

Peace and Hope for our future,

Marilyn