Common Elements of Every Swamp: Rot, Decay, Slime, Scum and Deadly Creatures and Snakes

We were lifelong natives of South Louisiana until our recent move to Florida so we can state with total humility that we know a little something about swamps, as much of that part of the USA is built near, in, on or close to a real, not figurative, swamp. There is a very old joke about Louisiana, prompted by its “wide-open” brand of politics, especially prevalent during the time of Edwin Edwards, which defines Louisiana as a place where half the state is under water and the other half is under indictment!

Sad but true, and another truism which might be uniquely timely in these troubled days is the fact that all swamps have certain elements in common, such as

Rot

Decay

Slime

Deadly Creatures

Snakes

Our former home in Baton Rouge was about six blocks from a small swampy area known as Bluebonnet Swamp and much of the public library in that area fronted on one edge of that swamp. Additionally, we were about a one hour drive from one of the largest swamps in America, the Atchafalaya Basin Swamp, a tour of which with anyone but a certified guide very familiar with the area will point out another common feature of all swamps: one can get lost very quickly in a swamp, even if in broad daylight with all of one’s wits about them. Here’s a representative photo of a little piece of this swamp:

And here is one of those creatures which make swamps like this so dangerous:

This points up another similarity which all “swamp critters” have in common: as they are animals or reptiles or serpents they obviously have no moral compunction whatsoever about killing a victim, or, as we will now discuss with reference to another Swamp, killing his reputation, his family, his home, his future or his children's future.

In that swamp, most ironically located in our Nation’s capital, named in honor of one of the greatest, most honorable, most honest, most straightforward American who ever lived, the similarities are remarkable:

Rot: see, e.g., The Clintons, Obama, Schumer, Comey, Brennan, Clapper, McCabe, Biden, etc., etc., etc.

Decay: see, e.g., Pelosi, Biden, Leahy, Feinstein, etc., etc., etc.

Slime: see, e.g., Biden, Hunter; Biden, James; Biden, Joe; Clinton, Bill; Clinton, Hillary; Psaki, Jen; Sullivan, Jake; Obama, Barack; Obama, Michelle; Jarrett, Valerie; Rice, Susan;

Deadly Creatures: all of the above

Snakes: All of the above, plus: Sztrok, Peter; Page, Lisa; Sussman, Michael; Cheney, Liz; Romney, Mitt; every single juror in the Sussman trial; Judge [ ] (ethics - that quaint ancient concept- inhibits me from naming him, as I am still a licensed attorney)

From the moment I learned of the verdict in the Sussman case, I have been unable to get these images out of my head and I kept thinking of the way we casually throw around the nickname “The Swamp” without realizing the many ways it is indeed so similar to the actual swamps we have lived around all our lives in South Louisiana.

Should anyone have any lingering doubts about why it is so hard to recruit good, solid, honest citizens to go to work for us and represent us in our Nation’s capital, just take another look at that dramatis personae and ask yourself what level of sheer, strong, unadulterated courage it would take to expose your family to the treachery of such creatures?

Is there hope for America with this the pool of evil now effectively running our National Government? Absolutely-but only if there is a deep, far-reaching change in our culture in which we, once again, hold liars and inside dealers and thoroughly amoral creatures like Hillary Clinton, accountable and no longer reward them with promotions, mansions, book deals and influence we “proles”, in the term of Orwell’s 1984, could never dream of. One mid-term and one Presidential election will be a great —and, hopefully, joyful!- start, but it’s going to take a lot more to clear out these entrenched serpents from their nesting places.

God Bless America!