Government of the People, by the People and for the People

 My anger rises like an inexorable flood that is impossible to stop.  How DARE Pence not affirm that he is willing to accept the will of the American people if he and Trump lose the election.  We are entering a period with unlimited fraught-ness.  The 'crazy' outrage of the Republican party rejecting perhaps the most sacred tenet of a democratic republic--the acceptance of the will of the people--is the action of despots.  We have now heard the denial of that principle stated in no uncertain terms by the President and Vice President of OUR nation!  This is too much. 

Also, there is widespread voter intimidation and suppression going on right now.  We are seeing it in North Carolina, Wisconsin, Texas, Pennsylvania as well as a Trump administration effort to scare prospective voters from going to the polls.  The President is unceasing in his decrying mail-in voting; his urging of his 'soldiers' to go to the voting locations and intimidate as they 'watch for fraud'; his manipulation of the USPS to slow voting down.  Republican governors and local officials are doing everything they can to make voting difficult, from reducing the hours for voting to reducing the number of voter ballot drop boxes in some counties.  Why are they doing all this?---they are scared.  They know they are losing and the only action they can take is to reject democracy and practice suppression.  Why would they try to take people's right to vote away?---because they know it's the only way they can win. Essentially Republicans do not believe in democracy.

 

These actions are reason enough to reject all these people.  If the only way you can win is to cheat, then you don't even deserve to be on any ballot.

 

All Americans have to be steadfast.  We must all calmly push forward and reject these efforts to thwart democracy.  We don't need to be loud about it, the inherent core strength of the mission of integrity embodied in true democracy is our guide.  It is a quiet, simple sword of truth.  

In the meantime, the President is wildly erratic, tweeting in a torrent, dredging up every possible red herring from his time in office from Hillary Clinton's emails to Obama's purported bugging his campaign in 2016, to insisting that AG Barr arrest and indict Clinton, Biden and Obama.  The man is frothing at the mouth (and fingertips) trying to deflect and obfuscate the real issue which is his incompetence and unfitness for office.  With each whining tweet he demonstrates further that he is worthy only of rejection!

 

Trump's entire Covid adventure and boastful claims that his catching the virus is a blessing from God is just insane.  Every day brings us more outrageous claims of his self-proclaimed superior physical constitution overcoming his sickness.  He will not release any medical history and timeline to help understand what stage of the disease he is in.  Now he is claiming that his treatment has cured him.  We have a madman in office as our President.  It's always about him and never the American people.  Why else would he simply shut down Covid relief talks until after he is elected.  Is that his way of saying, "First elect me and then I will help you."  That is a clear "F"U to America.

 

There is nothing left for us to do but be single-minded about getting as many people to the polls as possible.  The only way to avoid chaos after the election is to have a resounding rejection of the Trump/Republican party.  It is hard to know what will happen because of all the lies and misdirection, but all each of us can do is keep our eyes trained on the beacon of free and fair elections as the bedrock of our democratic republic and VOTE.  We are the ultimate power here, and there probably has been no other time in our history when that is the consummate truth that will redeem us as a nation.

Lincoln had it right--we are entitled to, and will persevere to achieve a Government of the People, by the People and for the People.