Who Will Say "Enough!"?

Every day that dawns gives us another reason to fear for the future of our country.  I know all the reasons why everyone is so upset about this administration, but now I have a greater fear.

I read yesterday that all of us, Democrats, Republicans, Independents—are getting weary of the 24/7 Trumpiness of the news.  From all outlets we get a never-ending repeating stream of descriptions of all that we are losing, all that he is saying, endless analysis of every word and how everyone is outraged by this statement or that statement.

The fact is that the guy is anti-democracy.  Everything he is doing, feeling, demanding, lambasting, planning, arguing is:

a)simply not articulate enough to be understood; b)changes from moment to moment, confounding everyone;

c) truly destructive to his oath to defend the Constitution

All of that is compounded by a Republican party in power that chooses to remain powerless, pursues greed and has no compassion for anyone, puts party ahead of patriotism and allegiance to our Constitution, and believes that government should direct all our lives both biologically and economically even though they profess just the opposite.

But the fear I have is that we are all becoming desensitized to this new condition which is corrupting our perception of why we are in such peril.

Columnists are quick to talk a good game of why we should all be concerned, but what is happening to counter all this stuff going on?  Who is saying “Enough!”? 

No one.  Each egregious action or statement is met with eye-blinking disbelief, but no one is saying “Stop!”

Do my countrymen actually believe it’s ok to re-organize the Department of Justice so that the FBI and all police power should be at the beck and call of the President?  Trump suggested that last night in his interview.  Do all my countrymen really think that repealing the ACA will make things better?  Demonstrations by people all over the country seem to say otherwise, but Trump and our representatives seem to be the last people on earth to be able to be moved by them.

I have argued for a long time that we need to have a renewed effort to teach our children what the tenets of democracy are, in the context of re-invigorated efforts to teach civics and government.  If we don’t start doing that immediately, there will be no salvation from the disintegrating path we are on as a society.

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Someone in Congress or some powerful organizations in our society (AARP, ACLU, Disabled American Veterans, Amnesty International, Save the Children, BBB, Ted Talks, Council on Foreign Relations, Chamber of Commerce, American Medical Assn., League of Women Voters, Planned Parenthood, American Bar Assn., NAACP, etc.) needs to raise their collective hands and say, “Enough!  Impeach!”