Trump's greatest aspiration
is to relieve himself of the burden of having to answer to anyone
other than Vladimir Putin. Facts are not Trump's friends. Since his
incompetence and corruption cannot withstand the glare of responsible
scrutiny, Trump and his sycophants want us to believe that the press
is the enemy of the people and that every source of information Trump
cannot control is phony and/or fake. This is not surprising. The first victim of any would
be tyrant is the truth. Reality must be what the great leader says
it is. Thus we have Trump's alternate universe of roiling mental
mush that is probably as incomprehensible to him as it is to us. And that is frightening.
I was recently asked what I
thought of the Inspector General's decision not to prosecute former
FBI Director James Comey for leaking confidential information
regarding meetings in which Trump indicated that he wanted Comey to
go easy on Michael Flynn. What am I supposed to think? What is
anyone supposed to think when we have an attorney general who is
acting like a soggy diaper covering Trump's ass and hauling his
water. Indeed the scathing rebuke of Comey in the inspector general's report seems like an ironically
Comneyesque compromise with a president who is demanding that all his
critics be prosecuted on Trumped up charges amounting to nothing more
sinister than contempt of Tyrant? Making matters worse is the fact
that Moscow Mitch is helping Trump gain control of the courts as
well as the justice department. And no, I am not over stating my
case (at least, not by much. Does the name Merrick Garland mean
anything to you?)
I think the thing that
troubles me the most is that I know I am one of Trump's victims, we all are. I am so
afraid of the very real danger Trump poses to our democracy, our
decency, and our most cherished traditions that my own rage is
threatening to turn my brains to roiling mush. I am also very
frustrated. The cruelty of Trump's fascist tactics are beyond
dispute. Not being content with separating asylum seekers from their
innocent children and holding those children in overcrowded,
unsanitary facilities without proper medical care or supervision –
not to mention the terrible conditions of the facilities where the
adults are incarcerated, the Trump administration is now ripping very
ill children out of their hospital beds and deporting them to
countries where those children cannot get the treatments they so
desperately need. The bottom line is that Trump is sending those children to their death or to a life of needless suffering. What is next, death camps? And what
about Trump raiding the disaster relief funds in order to protect us
from his straw dogs and bogey men, i.e. those brown asylum seekers at
our southern border? Why aren't people outraged by this cruelty?
Why aren't they protesting and demanding the impeachment of this lawless, incompetent, and callous despot? Have we lost our souls as a people? Do we no longer have a moral
compass?
“And then they came for
me.” I am taking this personal and so should you. Damn it! Enough is enough! End this embarrassing and
despicable national nightmare, or at least have the gumption to try!
