Patience

A word of caution.  While it is exhilarating to see the Trump leviathan begin to crumble, it should also be a time of caution so as not to rush to judgment.

After watching and listening to the news reports over the past several days, the media is clearly vibrating with fresh reports of cascading evidence against the Trump administration.  All the commentators seem fixated on all sorts of hypothetical assumptions that are still not based on solid fact.  There is clear innuendo to be sure, but the cold hard facts are still unknown.  The Special Counsel Mueller has not revealed the facts, other than the indictments he has handed down.  The reports generated late last week are full of blacked out redacted passages that simply hint at criminality, but they do not lay out the clear roadmap of wrongdoing.  Until they do, we must maintain our patience.

It is terribly hard to do that because of what so many of us see as so obvious.  However we must also understand that all we have are multitudes of questions that still remain.  Until those questions are answered by whatever evidence actually will presented, all the hypotheses are simply that….hypotheses.  It is time to take a deep breath and let this Mueller probe reach it’s conclusion. 

That is why it is so important to protect this investigation.  It is perhaps the only bastion of our democracy that remains in service to the American people.  Clearly the Congress is not interested in finding out the truth.  All you have to do is reflect on the past two years of obstruction and undermining of the investigation by the Republicans as a group, and the White House in particular, to see that it is not in their best interests to reveal the truth.  All they do is scream ‘witch hunt’, but the fact of the matter is that there have been more successful indictments because of this ‘witch hunt’ than Watergate and Ken Starr combined!

Our national security is at stake.  Even if you think this investigation is a ‘witch hunt’, it is incumbent on every citizen to understand all possible ways that an avowed enemy of our system of government might be trying to undermine and destroy our societal structure.  Considering all the falsehoods and misdirection we have seen from the Trump administration (and those are facts!) shouldn’t we want to uncover the truth about an attack against our very social fabric by an enemy?

Although it is painful to weather what seems like the longest journey with the slowest progress, we need to wait until the facts are known before we unleash what surely will be righteous anger and disgust at the damage done to our country by those who have so little regard for the democracy we profess to be.

Until then, remain open to the truth and the facts that eventually will be revealed.