If you don’t mind crying like a little kid, I hope you’ll watch the video below featuring Iris Dement, because the theme is a sad one indeed.
“Can’t you see, the sun’s sinkin’ fast, but just like they say, nothing good ever lasts” is perhaps a retelling of what our greatest minds have been telling us for ages. For example, we have “Nothing gold can stay,” the work of America’s perhaps most beloved poets, Robert Frost.
Dement’s third verse:
I buried my Mama and I buried my Pa
They sleep up the street beside that pretty brick wall
I bring them flowers about every day
But I just gotta cry when I think what they’d say…
I buried both my parents, who were lifelong Republicans, but “I just gotta cry when I think what they’d say” not about the demise of our town, but our nation.
What’s happening to this country is horrible. Maybe it’s reversible, but maybe it’s not.
It’s up to us.
It’s weird that no one talks about this anymore (did we talk about it at all?), but how likely is it that the assassination attempt against Donald Trump in which he was supposedly hit in the ear by a round from an AR-15 didn’t leave a scar? Not even a scratch?
Why can’t some teenage cub reporter follow this down and show that the likelihood of this actually happening is like rolling a six on a die 1000 times in a row?
According to Trump’s head of Homeland Security, we, the American people, have two choices: stay silent against ICE agents’ grossly illegal and sometimes lethal violence against innocent people, or face “more bloodshed.”
This is what fascism looks like.
Yet, too many Americans are children or grandchildren of our brave ancestors who risked (or gave) their lives to defeat Hitler. I’m betting against Trump and the despicable people he’s nominated to top positions in his administration.
While human civilization is far from perfect, most of the world’s people are kind and decent. Sure, there are rogue countries led by the most horrific dictators imaginable, yet all but one of the developed nations on Earth support their citizens with universal healthcare.
Of all the countries that played in the 2026 FIFA World Cup, the United States is the only one that lets its people go through bankruptcies and die of treatable diseases because they can’t afford health insurance.
Civil?
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