I recently viewed a video of a group of teachers watching the debate between Tim Walz and J. D. Vance. When Walz challenged Vance to answer whether or not Donald Trump had accepted his loss in 2020, Vance attempted to use an elaborate word salad to downplay the series of events leading to the January 6 storming of the Capitol. As the educators listened to Vance’s meandering and wishy washy response they began to cackle in disbelief. Their reaction demonstrated their important ability to recognize BS when they see or hear it and I too laughed in total unity with them.
Anyone well versed in history knows that there are often attempts to downplay past wrongdoings by dressing them in misleading descriptions. The American Civil War has been sometimes portrayed as a group of southern states fighting for and losing a glorious cause. The facts demonstrate something far different, however. The secession documents all of the Confederate states point to slavery as the main cause of the rift between the Union and the Confederacy. Letters, speeches and editorials all point to preservation of slavery as the driving force of the split, but post war many myths arose to soften the reality of what had happened.
So too it is with the events of January 6, 2020 and the involvement of Donald Trump. Eye witnesses can see and hear with their own eyes that it was an attempt to overthrow the election results that was led by Trump from even before the votes had been counted. It is a fact that Donald Trump strong armed multiple people, including then Vice President Mike Pence to change the slate of electors in his favor. When he realized that Pence was unwilling to conspire with him, he then taunted his followers to riot.
Luckily our democracy survived. Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi performed their duties as described in the Constitution and Joseph Biden became the President of the United States. In the meantime four years of attempting to hold Donald Trump accountable for his transgressions have been thwarted by political gaming and a total revision of what actually happened in the aftermath of the 2020 election. Now we have Trump followers asking us to believe that he did nothing wrong in spite of the mountains of evidence to the contrary. The gaslighting of the nation has been so successful that Trump now appears to have another shot at regaining the White House and wiping the stain of his actions from history as though they never happened.
While the video of the teachers laughing at Vance’s bold evasion of the truth made me laugh, the situation in which we find our country makes me angry and anxious. I truly fear that so many people have been misled that a traitor to everything that is sacred about our nation may regain the highest office in the land. Such would be a travesty, a low point and danger in our country and way of life. I am not certain that our nation would be able to endure having a bonafide traitor and liar in the White House, especially one who is so prone to lying to the people for his own power.
There is no other issue that needs to be discussed in this watershed moment! Nothing is more important than holding Donald Trump accountable for his criminal acts for the purpose of overthrowing votes of the American people. He was willing to disregard the Constitution and the laws of the land to take down the government. He has spent the last four years making absurd claims and growing more and more frightening in the process. His criminality and instability make him unfit for any office, much less being the leader of our nation.
I have attempted to hold back my language and sense of urgency because Trump himself spouts enough hyperbole to fill the universe. I have tried to quietly and logically inform people of the dangers that lie ahead if Trump wins this election. I had hoped that by now his support would be dwindling as people seriously listened to him and his running mate Vance. Instead he remains unremittingly believed and supported by a large population of voters. In some cases he is even revered as the only hope of our nation.
There are indeed problems in our nation today. There are always issues that need to be addressed. The economy is persistently in our thoughts. Our strength on the world stage is a topic that never goes away. We have avoided serious discussions of immigration for decades but know that we cannot continue to do nothing. We have been unserious and far too contentious with each other as Donald Trump leads the attempts to tear us apart. We must vote for the very heart and health of our nation. No other issue matters! If we want the United States of America to survive we have to send Donald Trump and those who are following and lying for him a clear message. We must demonstrate that those who would destroy our democracy or ignore our Constitution are not welcome! Donald Trump must be shunned as the traitor and criminal that he truly is.
My words are strong because I have reached the point of understanding how dangerously close we are of being swindled by a grifter who does not care about us or the United States of America. We cannot allow Donald Trump to get his way once again. We must not pretend that January 6 was just a little misunderstanding that does not matter when it is everything!
Please think about our country. Please vote for what is right and just. We can worry about those other issues later. For now we are the only ones who can save our nation. That means voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. The time for putting country first is now!
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