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!
