By now everyone knows whom everyone else is going to support in our upcoming Presidential election. Four years ago I made it very clear that I had never supported Donald Trump and never intended to do so. Today I am even more firmly entrenched in my feeling that Donald Trump is not worthy of filling the highest job in the land, but I also know many people who believe that he is the only candidate worthy of being our Commander in Chief. While I am realistic about this fact, I am still having difficulty understanding why it is so, and why even people who know and love each other can be so far apart in their political beliefs.
I do not think that anything I say in my blog will change minds. If the incidents of January 6, 2021 did not cause people to spurn Trump forevermore then I doubt that any fact or revelation will ever do so. Sadly I was an eyewitness to what happened on that day. I know what I heard from the lips of Donald Trump and I know what I saw from those who stormed the Capitol. I did not tune out from the coverage until the last vote was tallied under the leadership of Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi early the next morning in the dark before dawn.
Nobody will ever convince me that Donald Trump did not maliciously attempt to overturn the results of a fair election. That alone should have barred him from running for office ever again, but here we are with a convicted felon promising vengeance against those brave souls who saw what he was doing on that day and wanted to hold him and his followers accountable. The fact that he continually argues that the people who have been jailed for their violence in that moment should be pardoned tells me that they were only doing his bid, and he knows it. How, I constantly ask myself, can any patriotic American who loves this nation and its ideals even suggest that such a man should be reinstated in his office?
Donald Trump was a failed president in my estimation. He mishandled the pandemic resulting in the needless deaths of thousands of Americans. He dishonored the military over and over again. He was unable to keep cabinet members because he had no honor and no idea what he was doing. He was a bully and a man who to this day stoops to schoolyard antics to demean women, the disabled, people who are overweight, anyone or group that he dislikes. When Mike Pence declares that he will not be able to support the man under whom he served as Vice President it seems to me that no more should have to be said. When high ranking military men tell us that they have no respect for Trump I truly wonder why we should trust him with our nuclear codes or as the spokesperson for our nation on the world stage. Put simply I do not believe that Donald Trump is good for the United States of America.
I was horrified when a sick young man attempted to assassinate Donald Trump. I am against violence in all instances. I do not want harm to come to him, but I would surely like for him and his toxicity to finally go away. I am not certain that our United States can take much more of his selfish and self serving behavior. We need a President whose first thoughts are for all of us, not his own personal issues. His meandering and lying may fool some, but it will never fool me. Nothing becomes true just because someone repeats it over and over again. Fact checking Trump is tedious because his statements are filled with fallacies and untruths, but doing so reveals just how dishonest he is.
I once compared Trump to one of those door to door salespeople who latch onto a potential customer like a mad dog nipping at someone’s ankles. He blathers on and on hoping that we will grow weary and buy his boasts and lies. I learned a long time ago that the only way to deal with someone like that is to never open the door, but if we do so by mistake then we must have the courage to slam the door once it becomes apparent that he has nothing that we want. We have to be brave enough to call him out.
As I said before my comments here will endear me to those who already think like I do and will irk those who have their own ideas about Donald Trump. I simply wanted to make it clear for posterity that I will be voting for honesty, patriotism, my democracy. Donald Trump represents none of those things. He is a traitor to our constitution and I hope that we the people will not allow him to defile the United States with his hatefulness and divisiveness ever again. I will be voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. I put this in writing because I believe with all of my being that doing anything less threatens all that we Americans hold dear. I do this because I believe that in this moment it is now up to us to protect our nation from someone who would tear it down to bolster his own selfish pride.
I don’t sleep well at night. I worry that we are all in grave danger from Donald Trump. He is a clear and present danger to the very foundations of our democracy. He is already setting the stage for either a win or a loss. He will be trouble whichever way things go. I hope with every fiber of my being that somehow we will finally put him and his outrageous ideas to rest. It can only happen if enough of us take the time to vote him out. Maybe just maybe someone who is on the fence will read this and change his or her mind. It certainly can’t hurt for me to try to get just one more vote against a man who is so wrong for America.
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