If I were clever, I’d find a way to re-write “Dem Bones.”  But I don’t know what the tongue is connected to brain-wise, so I don’t know how to write a lyric about the president’s apparent disconnect in that department.  Plus I can’t think of a way to rhyme BabbleSpeak, gibberish, prattle, and gobbledygook with alternative facts and fake news.

We know a good many singer-songwriters, all of whom are equally horrified and gobsmacked by the current nonsense coming out of the White House.  Surely there is an Edward Lear or a Lewis Carroll among them just itching to write a theme song for the “fine-tuned machine” the Prez described last night.  Come on Larry Murante and Carolyn Cruso!  Get busy Jill Trenholm and James Hurley!  We’re counting on you Aaron English and Monte Killingsworth!

A Daryl Cagle Cartoon

I think we’ve all been silent long enough.  Silent because we were “giving the benefit of the doubt” or silent because we were too horrified to put what we were seeing and hearing into words.  Now, though, it’s time for us “bad losers” (according to DT) to rally round a peppy song that tells it like it is.  Something that will get even the red-staters singing along.

Along those lines, I was encouraged to see that the mental health community is beginning to speak out.  Three days ago, a letter signed by 15 psychiatrists and 20 other mental health professionals was printed in the New York Times.  In part it said:

Mr. Trump’s speech and actions demonstrate an inability to tolerate views different from his own, leading to rage reactions. His words and behavior suggest a profound inability to empathize. Individuals with these traits distort reality to suit their psychological state, attacking facts and those who convey them (journalists, scientists).

John O’Connell by his brother Kenny

In a powerful leader, these attacks are likely to increase, as his personal myth of greatness appears to be confirmed. We believe that the grave emotional instability indicated by Mr. Trump’s speech and actions makes him incapable of serving safely as president.

I say, “Hooray to them for speaking out!”  But what the nation needs now is a catchy, top-of-the-charts sort of song that even the frackers and Republicans in Congress, to say nothing of our undocumented immigrant workers and Bernie Sanders, and maybe the entire Tea Party will find themselves singing when they least expect it.  A sort of New Age National Anthem.  An earworm that will get into our minds and hearts and help us to become great again!  (Doncha think?)