Ghosting God, Ghosting Self
Day 58
Acknowledging TRUTH has become very difficult in the world we live in now and have lived in for the past 11 years. While politicians and elected officials have always “spoken with forked tongue”, the assault on TRUTH has never had this much cooperation from “those fine christian folks” and “those keepers of the jewish faith” like Vought, like Vance, like Netanyahu, like Trump! What is so terrifying to me, a child of the protest movement, a child who’s parents and grandparents were subjected to Anti-Semitism for so many years, is that the young people, people from the age of 14-25 have no idea what TRUTH is and how to discern it, they are ill-equiped to suss it out because even the College-Educated young people no longer are given the space to seek and find themselves, TRUTH, how to get along with one another, etc. Rather, it is all about the Benjamins, all about the money, all about seeing another human being(s) as an enemy who is ‘after your job’, “after your wives”, “eating your pets”, and other such BULLSHIT!
JD Vance, speaking at the Nixon Library, says what Nixon did with Watergate is no big deal, he was run out of office inappropriately, and just like Donald Trump, Nixon got us out of Vietnam in strength, he conducted foreign affairs with an iron hand and other bullshit. Trump gains a victory from the Supreme Court so he can throw out asylum seekers, refugees from Syria, Hatti, rather than follow the call of the Founding Fathers, the promise of the Statue of Liberty. According to Sam Alito and the right-wing majority on the Court, calling people of color as “coming from shithole counties” is not racist, calling out the Somalis who came here under extreme duress as less than human, begging people from Norway to come instead of ‘those people’ is not racist. DOES ANYONE REMEMBER HISTORY? DOES ANYONE REMEMBER GERMANY in the 1930’s? What the Fuck People??!!
The hubris of Trump, et al, of the Republican Party writ large, of that ‘fine christian gentleman’ Mike Johnson in ignoring the words of Amos 2:12 “But you gave the Nazirites wine to drink and commanded the prophets, saying Prophesy not”! This is referring to the Northern Kingdom of Israel and the priests, royalty, wealthy got people who took vows to not drink to drink and people who were called to speak truth to power, to shut up. SOUND FAMILIAR? When CBS caves into the lies of Trump, when Trump engineers the takeover of major media outlets by his ‘good friend, Larry Ellison”, when the ultra rich, the oligarchs in and of America, keep using the rest of us to feed their insatiable need for more, more, more, when people who speak up and out are indicted by Grand Juries with lies and innuendos by this NON-JUSTICE department, when people of color, women, Jews are denied promotions, denied access, forced to quit, made to swear allegiance to TRUMP and not the flag, not the United States Constitution, I believe we are in the ballpark with Ancient Israel, with Hitler’s rise in Germany.
When Mamdani has done to undermine the Center of the Democratic Party is atrocious! His left-wingnut bullshit ‘progressive’ agenda is not about equality, not about freedom of thought, choice, etc- it is as racist as Trump’s! Remember the Nazi Party was called the National Socialist Party! Mamdani and his co-horts, AOC, Bernie, et al are not seeking to find common ground, they are feeding the narrative that Democrats don’t care about the average joe, the average jane! How could I believe they will protect my interests as a JEW, when they have such venom and hatred for Israel-not the government of Netanyahu, the entire country, when they go along with and, in some cases, lead the “from the river to the sea” chants? When I am not one of poor nor am I one of the rich-I am part of the millions of Americans who live in the “middle of the road” politically, religously, spiritually, and financially-the part of America these ‘fine progressive folk’ seem to hate as much as they hate the rich!
What is the solution? It has to begin with hearing the call of Amos’ words. We the People have to demand that our elected officials get back to serving the Constitution and their constituencies-US! We the People have to return to our roots, the Bible. We the People have to demand of ourselves an endng to the Lies, to the excuses, to the ways we run after the majority, and sometimes, lead the majority to DO EVIL! Amos is calling us to account and We the People have to make a spiritual accounting of our actions:
ACTION STEPS
We the People have to see how we have betrayed the people who sacrificed so much so We could live in, grow up in a Free Country.
We the People have to make our amends, take the corrective actions that will change our thinking
We the People need to follow the paths of the Bible, the paths of T’Shuvah.
We the People are being called back to living decently, to doing justly, to be merciful, to walk in the ways of God-will you begin anew today
GOD BLESS, Stop Ghosting God, Ghosting Self, Rabbi Mark