Independence Day

It is difficult to watch the slow inexorable disintegration of our democracy.  What we are seeing now is the advancement of what some might call a 'logarithmic progression of disassembly'.  It is an ever-increasing slope to a curve of disaster unless we can figure out how to stop it.

A process that started 30 years ago with the rise of a Republican Party that has morphed into a cruel and heartless vanguard of destruction is now tipped with a leader who is a crude, malicious, anti-intellectual.  On a daily basis we see the piece-by-piece crumbling of the structure of our society at the hands of people who are only concerned about themselves and money.

We need a leader.  We need a man or woman of action who can mobilize all that is good in us to cast out the evil that has found purchase in the United States of America. 

Men of good will and intelligence have been asleep at the wheel.  They have allowed deceit, fabrication, cruelty and disregard to replace honesty, integrity, altruism and humanity in the social fabric of our 'grand experiment'.  The founders of our republic are spinning in their graves.

I can think of a few actions whose moment has arrived. 

First, I would encourage the press, and I mean all the press—cable/broadcast/print journalists to boycott daily press conferences with President Trump and his minions.  Shut them out so the only mode of communication will be his tweets.  Stop answering his daily distractions.  He seems to thrive on distraction when questions get too close to the truth for him to endure.  Report and critique his actions, but stop asking questions of him.  We only get lies anyway. 

Second, accelerate the investigations into his collusion with the Russians and expose his campaign’s coordination with the hacking attack on our nation during its elections.  Reveal in unflinching detail his corrupt business dealings, both past and ongoing. 

Third, raise money from people concerned about resurrecting the dream of the Founders and use those funds to build public support to proceed with impeachment proceedings.  Even though Democrats do not have majorities, they can still introduce resolutions of impeachment in much the same way Republicans repeatedly voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act…..Daily!  We need to provide daily distractions from Trump and Republican initiatives by making all of them deal with what amounts to an 'insurrection of rationality'.  We need to find ways to distract all of them.

Fourth, increase voter registration, and support local campaigns to bring millenials and younger voices into the milieu of government and public service.

Fifth, Create a Citizen's Movement to communicate with foreign powers who increasingly look at what is happening in America and realize that we have abdicated our leadership role in the world.  We need to let them all know that what is happening here is a temporary insanity, that there are forces of intelligent ‘good’ that will rectify this situation over the short term.

And Sixth, be resolute, be aggressive, be righteous, be honest, and be overwhelmingly determined to save the vision of what America is supposed to be for the rest of the world....a place where:

   “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”

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