Crossroads

Jesse wrote yesterday evening:

We stand silent and complicit in the face of a genocide that matches the viciousness of the worst of the last century.

We stand silent, and therefore complicit, as the structure of our Constitution is slowly being dismantled, clause by clause, amendment by amendment.

We stand silent, as our Congress disgraces itself a bit more every day in the service to greed and power.

There is only one time to speak, the present.  Your voice is yours until it is silenced by natural events or malevolence, which is rapidly rising under Trump II, the digital Caligula.  

Texas stands silent regarding leaders abject failures to protect our most vulnerable.

It's been three years and Texas DPS is yet to release records regarding the Uvalde School Shooting.  Elected officials would rather carve up the state into new voting districts to entrench their status and power.

The three Kerr County officials responsible for warning residents/visitors of dangerous flash flooding and setting up an incident command remain in their positions.  They were sheltered by state officials for 27 days and deserved far worse than they got from the House panels, whose members seemed to want to focus on the future.  The most basic thing done in disaster response is assessing what went right, what failed and what to do in the future.

Basic protections are shown to citizens in plans and through officials with titles.  They are taught to us in schools via the Constitution, Bill of Rights and the checks and balances of our three branches of government.  Thus we have an expectation of our leaders.  Repeated and accelerating failures point to mendacity and malevolence.  

No one took control....they were all asleep....

That wasn't good enough then and it's sure not good enough now.