Or in English, I feel embarrassed.
Since the events at our national capitol that the Military Joint Chiefs are calling sedition and insurrection, I have talked to two gentlemen in Central America. The young Mexican man living in Honduras was just incredulous. He could not believe such a thing could happen here. For many people in that part of the world, the United States is their dream.
The gentleman I talk to in El Salvador is a little more seasoned. He asked me if I felt like I was living in the middle of a Mad Max movie, referencing the Viking helmeted man. I told him I felt a little like I was living in a república bananera, banana republic. He agreed that it did seem that way right now to a lot of people living in real banana republics.
The new face of America is a 33 year old, wanna-be actor living at home with his mother. If you do an image search you will find this individual’s picture in a multitude of foreign news outlets. How very distressing.
Supposedly Trump made a comment about the insurrectionist wishing they looked a little classier. I immediately wondered, have you not been looking at your rally audiences for the last 5 or 6 years. He is not that much different from many of the folks I have been seeing at them.
I’ve been saying for years that we have become a lowest common denominator society. I am beginning to feel we are trying to divide by zero. As every programmer knows, if you do not handle this error it crashes the program.
What a sad, sad time for our country.
And so it goes.
Keep well.