The final days

By Jim Thompson
HCP columnist

In mid-1944, the little man in Berlin with the toothbrush mustache ordered his subordinates in Paris and elsewhere to destroy everything as they retreated.  

They disobeyed this order, saving many notable features and works of art for us to enjoy today. It is widely believed that this little man, on April 30, 1945, committed suicide, although there is an equally credible account of him and his bride escaping to Argentina by submarine.

Today, we have a little man occupying 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. He and his subordinates are creating and executing myriad destructive plans for our country. As of this writing, he has less than two weeks to go in office. We don’t know what else he has up his sleeve.

Or is it up the sleeves of others? Is it he who is thinking up and executing these destructive plans or is it others? We have learned in recent months what we suspected all along – he has been barely functioning for the last four years.  

So, from whence comes the diabolicalness? Is it he or others? To what ends?

Together, when you collect the bits and pieces of the last few weeks, they seem to be the objective of one or more individuals trying to destroy or at least cripple the United States.

Personally, I don’t think the little man in the White House is capable, given his state of cognitive decline, of conjuring up some of these diabolical actions.  

Additionally, looking at some of the awards and honors he has bestowed, he has ruined their prestige forever. Would you want to join a group of awardees with George Soros as your peer? I think not.

Like many other things done by this administration, we are at a loss to determine the source and the objective. Preserving our way of life seems to be at the bottom of the list.

But if preserving our way of life is at the bottom of the list from this White House, what is at the top? It is hard to discern anything but an attitude of destructiveness.

Common sense also seemed to have been missing in the last four years. How many billions of dollars have been wasted on ideas that are just plain silly?  

Most importantly, what has been done to our young people and children?  

Between COVID-19 lockdowns for those least vulnerable to open discussions and questioning of children and young people concerning their sex assigned in the womb, what are we doing?  

Aren’t we really treating these children with same contempt as the little man with the toothbrush mustache treated the circumcised?  

We have gone off the rails. Much can be assigned to the White House of the last four years; other actions can be assigned to others who took cues from the White House and ran with them.  

O that we had some like the order-defying subordinates in Paris and other places of heritage in the Europe of 1944 and 1945.

Soon, I pray, our nightmare will be over and the little man in the White House permanently escapes to Delaware, never to be heard from again.

Jim Thompson, formerly of Marshall, is a graduate of Hillsboro High School and the University of Cincinnati. He resides in Duluth, Ga. and is a columnist for The Highland County Press.