Farewell, Blue Helmet

My government continues to fiddle while Kyiv burns, again. Shameful. We have become shameless in our cowardice and sycophancy, and by we, of course, I mean the Republican Party. While I have always gravitated toward the term and concept of republicanism, small r—someone concerned for the common good of one’s public, one’s people—the current party of that name is republican in name only, even a contradiction in terms, and seems to exist now merely for the interest and ego-stroking of its mango-faced demagogue and for the bad of virtually everyone else—except Putin. It is terrible that the fate of the courageous people of Ukraine may depend upon the likes of a people that we are become, feckless as the nights are long and cold in winter.