Light

Last night's bellwether election was won by the forces of light.  It was won by those of us who want to embrace our diverse nation the culture of which was formed by men of genius nearly 250 years ago.  It has been called the world's last great hope for the blessings of liberty and a nation which is not ruled by the whim of tyrants but by the compassion of the people and its laws.  It is and always has been a work in progress.  Over the past year and really before that this nation has been tested whether the forces of evil, hate and darkness will force it to go the way other cultures in other centuries have gone killing hope only to bring tyranny and oppression upon those who have no power, no money, no health and no hope to stand up against it. Our lives and theirs are at risk if we, cannot stop the evil among us who through never ending mendacity, never ending meanness, never ending crudity and and never ending malevolence try to pit us one against the other.

The fight is not over through one election cycle.  It is a never-ending war of ideas without violence but our opposition, if they deem it necessary, will not hesitate to use violence.  Over 300 million guns they hold in their hands which hands are itching to use.  The weapon we will use will be through the ballot, the most lethal weapon on earth. We need to take last night's victory of hope and go on to win more much more never giving up, never faltering and never failing.  We will continue to see the minions of madness carrying the Tiki torches of dark light.  We will continue to see KKK crosses that light up the night sky and will not hesitate to murder the powerless innocent.  Worse, a major Party, the Republican Party, has taken those dark forces in, placed their arms around neo-Nazis and other nationalist ministers of doom and have given them voice, taking them out of their hiding place and placing them in the halls of power with a man who has allowed them that power. Through his small hands Trump can light up a July 4th sky that inflicts massive destruction, war, suffering and the death of innocents.

The magnificence of Churchillian eloquence appending Martin Luther's King's thoughts of non-violence I find energizing:  "... whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender." One can be assured the evil, the cruelty and the hate of this Trumpian era has not gone away.  The Tiki torches will still with poison burn and those that carry them will continue to say "Jews will not replace us" yelling "blood and soil," a familiar Nazi phrase.  Trump and his minions, messengers of hate and division, cannot stand.  Trump, taunts an unstable youth and, ironically, becomes a clone of Kim Jong Un, a tyrant he alleges to despise.  He will continue to taunt that man Kim Jong Un who needs but one excuse to explode the only commodity North Korea can export -- a nuclear device.  The innocent of Asia, the innocent thousands of American lives and, indeed, the innocent around the globe will be enlisted to wage a massive war, the fear of which has been reignited by the sickening forces of Trump.

The baton was passed to us by the Greatest Generation and now when the light of our batons has ebbed we must pass it to the next generation to be passed by them on to the next.  This nation must be a nation of free men and women whose great Lady Liberty standing with perpetual light in New York Harbor, has been the beacon of hope to immigrant millions, my own grandparents among them, hearkens and in pertinent part says: "Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp! cries she with silent lips.  Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, the tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

The political fight against Trumpian tactics and mendacious madness goes on.  We must fight them as Martin Luther King said with "non-violence the only road to freedom."  A political war must continue to be waged against an incompetent man on whom some in this nation have seen fit to bestow unimaginable power.  Trump is a narcissistic bully who got lucky in life and who managed to acquire great wealth first through inheritance then developing that wealth, often through unethical means to ultimately hoard it and con a nation into the oval office to reap its immense taxpayer wealth for himself. 

The forces of evil that exist in some of this land that allowed him to prevail must be unceasingly resisted.  I hope justice will prevail and Trump will reap the nation's Muellerian harvest.  Trump must not win and we must not let him. We must see to it that this cancer does not spread throughout our body politic.  We are better than that.  It requires our vigilance and our attempt to seek that power through the ballot, the strongest power on earth, to stop him. 

Last night was a first step on a journey of many steps.  If he wins the light of Lady Liberty's torch goes out and Benjamin Franklin's famous quote to a woman who asked him what the Founders had given us; he said "A Republic if you can keep it."  I would answer Dr. Franklin by saying keep it we will! 

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