Serious

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

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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!