Sinister Creeping Change

I don’t decide to write an opinion blog until something just compels me to express myself.  Today, what is happening behind the scenes of distraction by the Trumpites is so horrifying that I cannot remain silent about it.

While all of us are exhausted by the daily outrages that emerge from Trump’s fingertips in the form of tweets, and other distraction, what his agents of destruction are doing in the meantime is taking apart our democracy piece by piece. 

The latest news about Brett Talley, the unqualified ex-law student who Trump has nominated for a lifelong position for a federal district judgeship, is just the latest symptom of the steady disintegration of the judicial system and rule of law.  Trump has nominated 59+ candidates for the Federal Bench since his inauguration (faster than any recent president’s appointment rate) …..91% white conservative men, four of whom have been rated as “unqualified” by the American Bar Association.  Many of them are right wing advocates that have checkered histories of belonging to organizations that clearly conflict with the need for unbiased judicial deliberation in the conduct of administering the laws in this country. Many are unabashed supporters of the NRA.  Many have published views and made statements that are so far from the mainstream of thought, that the prospect of these people making decisions about how all of us in the majority are going to have to live our lives under their guidance is terrifying.

This is just another example of the raft of unqualified people that the Trump administration is placing in positions of power and leadership whose only goal is to deconstruct pieces of the federal government and bring chaos to parts of the government that were created to make life better for all of us.  How about Sam Clovis for Department of Agriculture as Under Secretary for Research, Education and Economics?  Here is a guy who is about as far from Agriculture and science as Pluto is from the Sun!  Rick Perry, Department of Energy Secretary, who didn’t even know when he took the job that this position is responsible for this country’s nuclear arsenal. (Position formerly held by Ernest Moniz, a brilliant nuclear physicist).  Ben Carson, a brain surgeon who is now Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.  Did you see the news clip where he was queried by Rep. Al Green and couldn’t answer any questions Green asked about budget cuts being made to his agency because he simply didn’t know?  Pitiful.  And let's not forget the disintegration of the Department of State under the dubious leadership of Rex Tillerson!

I just hope that our republic will survive this deconstruction and that the bottom doesn’t fall out before we rid ourselves of the scourge of Trump.

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And here is a postscript about the Roy Moore affair…is it really possible that human beings in Alabama actually are supporting a child molester?  I listen to some of the interviews with actual people who are willing to ignore the disgusting behavior of this man.  They claim to be religious people and Moore exhorts them to bring God back to government.  The world is upside down!