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Wait a Minute

Did I hear that wrong?

On my way for another appointment
with the vampire bleeding Quest,
big stage conversations on the radio
travel way too fast
for me to stay tuned in
to our nesty mess
at my normal liberal-conserving pace.

A single new mom
is surprised to learn about herself.
Her post-parted mother self
is less excited about getting back to work
out in the "real world."

Wait a minute!
When did a truly nurturing home environment
become the unreal world?

Back when most of us were cooperative serfs
and co-opted slaves,
shipping clerks
and slow-grown farmer families,
wasn't family life cultural realness?
And outside employment 
our unreal
mechanistic crazy ant- and hornet-nestedness?

When and why did that turn
right side down?

Then she argued,
without waiting for slow to learn me,
against those who blame the childcare victim
by challenging employers AND employees
to do better
balancing work and home life
with bi-transcendent presence.

She finds this adds undue bilocation pressure
on parents to find ever more efficient
and effective employee-parent balancing acts
in multi-tasking lack of fully engaged bicameral presence.

We need systemic change,
she says,
although I fear that's what Donald Trump would also say,
in another UnReal Wounded World's competitive runaway favor.

Wait a minute!
Don't throw out the new-balancing baby
with our dirty economic laundry water!
Don't argue against Ego/Eco balance needed
to embrace, again,
healthy Cultural Symbiosis.

A culture so out of balance
that competitive Win/Lose economies
now monopolize our encultured RealWorld,
and cooperative Win/Win parent/child empowerment
has become privatized UnReal Healthy CounterCulture.

Then, less than a minute later,
Republican spokespersons
described President Trump as vindicated
by Mueller's executive report
finding insufficient Win/Lose information to prove collusion
with Russia
and/or obstruction of health restoring justice
within America,
made transparently and inclusively great again.

Wait a minute!
Is no proof of colluding with a violent
competitive Win/Lose totalitarian
kleptocratic regime
threatened by our flagging Win/Win healthy democratic culture
and cooperative ecosystemic empowerment,
really vindicating
an out-loud vindictive plutocrat
too smart to go to Vietnam
and too slick to campaign for principles of un-commodified love and integrity?
Rather than against recession of pathological hate 
and red-hot mendacity
about what is 
and what is not healthy great.

First, he said Russia
was helping Hillary in the voting booths
of 2016.

Then, when it became clear some foreign agency
was trying to help him by hurting her,
He said it wasn't his good buddy Putin
or his bullying mafia Allies.

Then, when it became clear
it was Kremlin-sponsored interference,
He said, repeatedly, No Collusion!
because his campaign knew absolutely nothing
about anything
(which, out of context, sounds plausible).

Then, when it became clear
his campaigners did meet with Russian representatives
offering to do the political nasty
to Hillary,
He said, just "No Collusion!"
without qualifiers.

Then, when it became clear
the Trump campaign had nothing to say
about having met, without reporting, foreign agents
involved in dirty propaganda tricks
in U.S. media markets,
He still said only "No Collusion!"

But, wait a minute!
We have been asking
Why wouldn't a patriotic nationalistic leader
or hate-mongerer,
a true-blue military industrially empowered public servant
not jump out of his white privileged skin
to be the first to squeal on the bad bully guys
for playing mean loser-take-all
disempowering undemocratic politics?

Wait a minute!
Short of transparently unveiling how the Trump campaign
proactively attempted to let everyone know these hostile actions taken
against the integrity of our electoral system
thirsty for RealWorld informed voters,
how is settling for No Collusion! (probably)
sufficient to vindicate
this pseudo-patriotic 
half-elected leader 
of a wounded democracy
apparently intent on breaking all Ten Cooperative Commandments
as shamelessly as possible?

Wait a minute!
What happened to obstruction of healthy restoring-trust
bicameral, 
family home communion, 
and globally powerful nation 
justice?

And peace?
Don't even think about it!
That's a mere pie in sky win/win pipe dream.

By the time I returned home
to my RealWorld,
I was already exhausted
trying to keep up with
a patriarchally privileged
Win/Lose
UnReal
left-unmindful dominant brain
right-mind suppressed
with monoculturing
colonizing
secularizing
privatizing
narcissistic bullying intent.

I'll be alright though...
Just give me a minute.

Copyright © Gerald Dillenbeck | Year Posted 2019

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