I knew when I retired
for the evening that I had to write something momentous in the morning
because the times in which we live now are proven dire. Sometimes the
more mountainous the obstacles, the more unjust, and the more perilous
the times the less I think I am capable of imparting the seriousness of
the moment. It rather than forces me to write it ensures that I may
not. However, I have rejected the intractability of my cerebral cement
of fear because our national nightmare has been cast in stone and the
titular head of our nation does not, indeed, refuses to address it, and
perhaps, even cannot mount a Herculean effort to ameliorate it.
Yesterday,
our national security titans -- Director of National Security Dan
Coats, FBI Director Christopher Wray, National Security Advisor John
Bolton, Homeland Security Secretary
Kirstjen Nielsen
, and General. Paul M. Nakasone, the head of the National Security
Agency entered the White House Press Briefing room where each declared
this nation to be in an imminent, clear and present danger from attack
by the adversarial nation of Russia and its thug president Putin. Each
national security heavy weight said in their own words the nature of the
threat and how committed they all are to addressing and stopping it.
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said "Our nation is in the
cross-hairs."
Someone,
though, was absent from this important meeting. If you guessed it was
the President of the United States you would be correct. He was not
there. Where was he you might ask. He was speaking at another
insufferable campaign rally in Wilkes Barre, PA delivering to his
cheering worshipful audience the same old things they love to hear while
he loves to soak up their applause. He tells them that the Russian
threat to our nation is a hoax cooked up by, of course, the enemy of the
people, the press undercutting what his own national security officials
have stated. Think about it. The president of the United States is declaring
the Russia
n
meddling in our national election
of 2016 and soon the 2018 midterms
to be
doubted as fake news
while the proof of which not only has been
overwhelmingly
abundant but is now being stated in front of the American people as true
by our own national security giants.
Trump's
sanity is being questioned by some professionals and non-professionals
alike that this president is in the throws of a mental decline if not
dementia as illuminated in the former Apprentice star Omarosa's
new book: "Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House." I
believe and have since Trump's winning the presidency that we have
elected an unhinged, truth denying hideous monster with no conscience
who occupies the seat of the greatest power on earth and who could order
a nuclear attack if he, at a moment of ranting, so chooses. I do not
think I am being hyperbolic if I say this nation is in one of the most
treacherous times since WWII. At least then we had a president who was
dedicated to saving democracy and not eradicating it. Another president
did the same by saving the better angels of our nature over 150 years
ago.
Trump's
appearance and statements at Helsinki beside Vladimir Putin were the
antithesis of strong. They were this president's anathema weak. Our
democracy is at risk as it never has been before and Trump's adoration
of demagogues, his evisceration of benign democratic leaders and allies
all of whom he has insulted, diminishing of NATO as well as his
commission of many unconstitutional acts is proof of what I say.
The
histrionics of his campaign rallies are old, redundant and filled with
lies. The Washington Post, the New York Times, and many other
newspapers as well as the cable commentators of CNN, MSNBC, NPR and PBS
are the truth tellers of our age. They come both in the liberal and the
conservative flavor alike. Trump, a lover of all truly fake news like
Fox tells his adoring Orwellian worshipers that his lies are truth and
that alleged truths are lies; He instructs them to believe only him. He
tells them that Putin is strong, that the 2016 election could have been
hacked by a 400 lb hacker sitting on a bed, that some Neo American
Nazis are good people, that you need an ID to buy food and all those
with brown skin who are attempting to escape their own perilous nations
need to be rounded up, separated, as punishment, from their children
(kidnapped) and ultimately sent back to certain death in the national
violence they are trying to escape.
Believe
the experts who addressed the media last evening and who told us of the
danger of attack, who know the evidence while the president would have
you believe only his own lies.
Trump is sick. This time Trump is the cancer not only on our presidency but on our national democracy entire the chemotherapeutic eradication of which is voting Democratic this November. Do so without fail!
