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It is just so enervating!
It seems like every day we are subjected to another indignity visited
upon our nation and our nation’s highest office by perhaps one of the crudest,
mendacious scumbags we have ever seen.
It is stunning that we were all asleep when the voters put this cretin
in office.
We are all tired.
Remember the days of Clinton, Bush and Obama where you could
go for weeks on end without really focusing on politics; when life was consumed
with our daily habits and routines? Now
we endure daily scandals and announcements from our Executive Branch that are
usually lies and half-truths. A
concerted effort is being made to bring authoritarian government to our
Constitutional Republic.
Our President openly admires leaders like Putin, Duterte,
Erdogan, Xi Jinping. He is fighting a
war against law enforcement, denigrating the FBI, the Department of Justice,
the Special Counsel. He tries to
distract us from pursuing his relationship with the Russians with a scandal
about his relationship with a pornstar and his efforts to muzzle her.
He is firing the only defense the country had against his
impulsive ‘gut’ driven decision making process.
Out go, Tillerson (not that he was so great) Cohn, Macmaster, Comey,
McCabe, Baker, and others who were purportedly the country’s defense against
incompetence. His cabinet choices are
all disappearing too because of their corrupt behavior and living large off the
taxpayer dollar: Carson, Pruitt, Price, Schulkin, maybe Sessions. New appointees will be media stars and people
who are supplicants of Trump: Pompeo, Kudler, Zinke, Perry.
All our mechanisms of government are being dismantled piece
by piece: State—no new appointees to
replace all the ones who have left because Tillerson has been such a
disaster. Environmental Protection—a
huge number of regulations have been done away with that will undo all the
progress we have made cleaning up our air, water and environment. Justice—strategic campaign to remove anyone
of authority who could be a threat in litigation against him.
The former Republican party has made their deal with the
devil. Now they are reaping what they
have sown. Recent reporting has claimed
that Trump’s behavior has changed and become more aggressive and unhinged with
regard to his decision making.
We should be worried.
Without any responsible counsel, (remember he has fired most
everyone we considered protectors of rationality) he could lead us into war or
other unconscionable directions.
Republicans are still cowed by him….why?....because they still see him
as their route to remaking our society in an image that only self aggrandizes
all of them and feeds money to their sponsors and special interests.
In his recent twitter outburst this past weekend he
denigrates and discredits Robert Mueller repeatedly and calls for the shutdown
of his probe. He accuses him of partisan
witch hunting. May I remind you that
Mueller was unanimously confirmed for an additional term by the entire Senate
on Obama’s recommendation in July of 2011.
Mueller is not a Democrat or a Republican…..he is an American, and a
patriot above all.
The exhaustion we are all feeling as a result of all this is
just symptomatic of our inability to focus on really important issues facing
our country. Trump is focused on the
footsteps getting louder in the hallway of the people coming to get him. His strategy of deflection and misdirection
is all he can think about. All of this
could not be a stronger indication of why he is unfit for the job of
President. And at the end of the day, it
is ‘we the people’ who will suffer the most.
There are movements afoot by citizens who are interested in
“Making America GOOD Again!” If you get
the opportunity, listen to Rep. Beto O’Rourke from Texas who is running for the
Senate against Ted Cruz. He is an
example of where we need to go as a country and what we should be doing to
regenerate the integrity, honesty, and compassion of government.
There is a wave developing in our country. All the intermediate elections we have seen
since Trump took office are showing the mounting evidence of approaching
change. Personally, I am hoping for a
tsunami of change that will bring back the respect I once had for the concept
of representative government. What we
have now is government by corporations and special interests. What is germinating in the hinterlands is
renewed government in the service of the actual citizens.
Nothing happens fast in life, most especially changes in how
we govern ourselves. But one year from
now, hopefully we will see significant changes in our House of
Representatives. We will see Democrats
in control, many more women in positions of leadership, and a move to impeach
the rot that has infected our White House.
Hopefully we will see the disappearance of self-absorbed, self
aggrandizing politicians whose time has most assuredly expired, rejected by a
newly awakened citizenry.
You must ask yourselves as parents and grandparents, when
your children and grandchildren ask you why nobody was able to put a stop to
this degeneration of our society and country,
“What did YOU do to
reverse the slide toward autocracy and acceptance of lies, and warfare on our
institutions of law?”
We must be able to answer, “We saw the danger and we moved
against it!”
We must, at the very least, carefully select who will
represent us in the next Congress. Most
importantly, we must use our most precious democratic prerogative. We must VOTE—If Pennsylvania’s recent interim
election won by Conor Lamb is any indication---Every vote counts!
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