Our last holiday season before DJT (again)

Here we are in the Christmas season that leads up to the new DJT presidency. We will remember this Christmas for its unique flavor. We can't help speculating on what might happen.

We cannot assume that all of Trump's pledges will be borne out. How many of them are just posturing? How much of it is just "talking tough" because he sees his base salivating for it? So many people of that ilk are right here in the Morris area. They populate many of our churches and give those churches their defining quality. Are we celebrating the birth of DJT on December 25? 

Right now on this December 12, it's the time of year when love of all mankind should be overflowing. 

And then finally on Christmas Eve Day, life will slow to a crawl to recognize this spirit. That is the way it has been my whole life. 

DJT looms as a literal autocrat, a dictator. Such a person will surround himself with sycophants who fill positions and know what is expected of them. They will put their private thoughts aside, any private thoughts that are inclined toward skepticism or fear. 

And why is that? It is human nature for people to want to be close to power. The German autocrat of the mid-20th Century had a ring of people around him. Look at a photo of Martin Bormann. Doesn't he look like the most ordinary and reasonable person? The kind of guy who, if cloned into 21st Century America, might be your local State Farm agent? And he truly would be a responsible citizen. 

Human beings are vulnerable. Isn't this part of the essential Christian belief, that we are sinful, weak and flawed, needing to turn to our Savior as our ultimate hope? Our Savior today gets invoked at churches where He might share the platform of reverence with DJT. I know because I listen to these people often in the morning. This is at a local hospitality establishment. 

However, I hear much less of this talk since the election. Do these crusty older men realize that the sheer reality of a new DJT presidency might just bite them in the butt? That inflation will really truly come at them? That the U.S. will be dealt a terrible black eye in the world view because of mass deportation/detention camps? Trump says even people born in the U.S. will be deported with their families, even though this would contradict law. 

You see, DJT has managed to get his stooges appointed as high-level judges, making for a quite bastardized legal system. It of course goes all the way up to the Supreme Court. When the law is no longer interpreted for what the words of the law say, well then you know what kind of path we are heading down. 

As scary as anything: DJT's pledge that the media be regulated so that it "serves the public interest." Can't you knaves all see? DJT will get to decide what the public's interest is. The "Saturday Night Live" people are surely upset by such a thing. But they will not want to be the test case. Everyone will shy away from being the test case. I can hardly blame anyone for just wanting to look out for their own interests. We used to say "looking out for No. 1."

 

But what about. . .

As always the local drumbeaters for MAGA will come at me, wanting to almost scream about "Hunter Biden." I've heard it before: Democrats demonized as communists and socialists. Well we fought the Vietnam war because of this fear of the boogeyman. It will not go away. The deep pockets people of America fear collectivism so much. 

And do I have to say for the hundredth time that all advanced industrial nations are a blend of free market enterprise and socialism? Yes, socialism to ensure a plane of civility, decency and security. And right now we see our Congressperson Michelle Fischbach beating the drum for "anti-communism" as if there's a real strain in America that wants pure communism. 

Michelle Fischbach

What she's really saying is "go to hell Democrats." That's what most Republicans are saying in the age of DJT. 

Well you knaves, life is really more complicated and nuanced than that. People right now are bursting forth with rage at our health care system with its byzantine "insurance" foundation. The recent murder was a catalyst for the new uninhibited thought. You see, people really can break free from the shackles of Republican thinking, the kind of thinking that suggests the private sector is the answer to everything. Maybe it isn't. Well we had a chance to elect Bernie Sanders in 2016. It would have made too much sense.

No Christmas song

For the second year I do not have an original recorded Christmas song to share with y'all. Not that I don't keep writing them. Give me two days and I could write another new song. 

The song that I would have had recorded for 2024 is "So it's Christmas Once Again" and it has such a positive message. I don't think Stevens County wants to hear a positive message. Fischbach almost wasn't conservative enough for us. This fellow Steve Boyd hung around in the periphery. He'd fit right in at the place where I have breakfast most mornings. 

But like I said, those guys of late don't sound quite so fanatical about pushing DJT and demonizing Democrats as if Democrats were rats from out of the sewer. 

My song would have a theme that "red" and "blue" people really could come together in the Christmas spirit. Heck, this worked in World War I for a truce, right? But then the fighting resumed.

"Red" and "blue" are in totally separated camps. My song would ring hollow. 

Heaven help us all for what will happen when DJT gets power again. I wonder if yours truly would be at risk for getting sent to a "re-education camp." 

Here are my lyrics for "So it's Christmas Once Again," a wishful-thinking song. The melody would be notated "AAB." A nice melody, I might add.

"So It's Christmas Once Again"
by Brian Williams

So it's Christmas once again
A time of year we wish would never end
From the time when we were young
Our parents got it done
Such fun

They put tinsel on the tree
While giving us a raft of memories
We got time off from our school
Our home could be a zoo
It's true

So it's Christmas once again
You might feel like the kid you were back then
So go and build a snowman with his pipe
He might just come alive
Oh my!

So it's Christmas once again
A time of year that gets inside our heads
When the joy for all is tops
And Santa Claus is boss
He rocks

Let's put politics aside
And try to build a better frame of mind
Where the brotherhood of man
Takes over as the plan
We can

So it's Christmas once again
A time to put your conflicts on the mend
It does not matter if you're "red" or "blue"
The spirit will come through
For you

So it's Christmas once again
A full embrace is how it should begin
Unconditional it is
We see it from the kids
Can't miss

Though we may lean left or right
Can we just put these matters out of sight
Though you may hear "stop the steal"
It really is surreal
Not real

So it's Christmas once again
A time to contemplate and make amends
To focus on the truths before us all
And feel our maker's call
Hey y'all

So it's Christmas once again
So it's Christmas once again

- Brian Williams - morris mn minnesota - bwilly73@yahoo.com