Tomorrow’s inauguration encourages many, myself included, to hope that the abuses and degradation of the past four years can be undone and things moved in a more promising direction. But there will be tremendous opposition, already begun, from the side that doesn’t realize it lost, and many things will take Congressional action, never an easy thing.
The characters Tweedledee and Tweedledum came out of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Later, in 1871, they were transformed into Tweedledee and Sweedledum by the famous political cartoonist Thomas Nast, to parody the corrupt Democratic Tammany Hall politicians, headed by William “Boss” Tweed and Peter “Brains” Sweeny, who ran New York as their …
In the past week, two influential former Democrats threw their support to the candidacy of Donald Trump for President, citing the dangers that the Democratic Party and its newly coronated standard bearer, Kamala Harris, pose to America’s democracy, as well as to world peace and security.
Many children, myself included, often heard the refrain, sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. In my case, it was part of my parents’ efforts to calm me in the face of daily schoolyard bullying to which I was subjected in elementary school. I might not have believed it then, but after Saturday’s events, if we didn’t already know better, we do now.
I realize what these people I’m going to discuss in this piece have done does not meet the technical Constitutional definition of treason, but call it by any other name you want — betrayal comes to mind — and what they have done has had the effect, if not the intent, of selling out their country in the quest for power.