I’ve been mourning for months. Mourning the loss of decency. Mourning for people who don’t have any idea how fucking indecent they’re choosing to be. Mourning all the way around. But as of today, my mourning is official. For today a sexual predator takes the highest office in America. (He is also a liar, a cheater, a racist and a bully.) It’s shameful and it’s pathetic. For all of us. (Some of us, more than others.)

 

Let me be clear about a few things here, people. This isn’t about being a sore loser. I’ve been a Detroit Lions fan for decades, so I know a thing or two about my side losing. Um-kay? So please don’t tell me I don’t know how to lose. I know how to lose. Did we lose? Yes. In more ways than we’ve yet seen. This isn’t about giving Drumpf a chance, either. I don’t ever, ever, ever have to give a sexual predator a chance. Period. Nor does anyone else. When someone says those words to me, that he’s our president now so we need to give him a chance, all I hear is that person saying how he or she is accepting of sexual abuse, and don’t I want to be down with that. Every time someone says that to me, I cringe a little. And I feel sorry for the speaker for being so indecent as to even suggest I should support a sexual predator. Again, shameful.

 

I will not support an elected sexual predator any more than I would any other abuser. I won’t watch an elected sexual predator conduct a so-called press conference, any more than I would watch any other abuser stand before a camera. I won’t do it. We all have to choose for ourselves whether or not our moral fiber is intact. I’m not the boss of you. But I’m sure as shit the boss of me. And you will not find me supporting a sexual abuser, no matter what title is placed upon his orange head.

 

Here’s what you will find me doing: remaining vigilant. I will keep my eyes and ears open and I will show up to protest indecency. I will also show up to support beautiful, ethical decency. I expect I’ll be in good company, too.

 

I will not accept all of this as normal, either. For it isn’t. I’ll keep reminding myself of that fact, because if I become complacent, or forgive all this bullshit and its perpetrators, then, well, I will have thrown my own decency in the trash. And I don’t care how many others have made that choice. I refuse to join them.

 

This isn’t going to be easy, not at all. We, the moral majority (which we are), have to stick to our ethics. We can stay true to decency. We can stand up for ethics. We can be good people. Good souls. Others may lack the strength of character required to deny the ugliness. But we are not them. We are strong and we are not alone. No – this isn’t normal. It isn’t. Regardless of how our country has chosen, we are better than what is taking place in our government. It’s going to get worse. Rights will be challenged and perhaps denied. Horribly behaved people are going to pass judgment on good, weaker folks. It will be ugly. Terribly so. And standing up to it will surely require more strength than I can even imagine. But we have to do it anyway. We have to. We just do.

 

So I don’t know what you’ll be doing today, but I will not be watching the horrible freak show taking place on the east coast, in an area epitomizing taxation without representation. No – I want no part of that train wreck. I don’t need to rubberneck it. Like I said – it’s shameful. It is the very worst of our country, come to power. I never thought I’d feel such pity for my own homeland. But that’s where we are. And yes – it’s pitiful.

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