I am by nature a polite person. I respect others and tend more toward diplomacy than brute force. I like to be optimistic and I certainly have never been the type who would rant that the sky is falling, but right now things are very different. The current environment is demanding my attention. As a person trained to protect people from harm I find myself needing to speak difficult truths as a warning that dangers that are imminent.
I have been wary of Donald J. Trump from the moment he rode down a golden elevator and announced that he was running for President of the United States. My single parent mother had taught me how to develop my radar when it came to being in the presence of dangerous people. She was a street wise child who was the youngest of eight children. From an early age she had to navigate prejudices and want. She brilliantly learned the tricks of the trade and managed to live a wonderful life in spite of challenges that might have conquered others. Along the way she plied me with her wisdom, love, generosity and ability to spot a bad situation or person immediately.
Somehow she instinctively knew that there are times in life when evil enters and we must all recognize it when we see it. I have kept myself safe without guns or fortresses simply by being aware of what is happening in my surroundings. I have rarely been surprised and it was no different with Donald Trump. I was that he had wrapped himself in a false cloak of patriotism that was based on dividing us as a nation, telling us falsehoods about each other, manipulating our laws to exclude huge swaths of the citizenry, debasing women and people with disabilities. flattering racist tendencies. I saw exactly what kind of person he was and reviled it even as he did his best to gaslight us into thinking that he was the true American patriot and that those who disagreed with him were the losers and communists.
I felt vindicated when it became apparent Trump was unable to pull us together as a nation during the worldwide Covid pandemic. His many weaknesses of character and leadership became patently clear and as I had hoped he was defeated in his run for a second term. I thought that surely we were done with him and might return to an American system build on mutual respect and the kind of ideas that pulls people together rather than apart. Almost immediately my dreams were dashed on January 6, 2020, when he incited his followers to storm Congress and stop the verification of the vote. Surely this was the work of a deranged traitor only intent on increasing power for himself. Once again I clearly saw his danger and believed that all Americans had finally witnessed it as well.
Imagine my dismay that Donald Trump is once again a candidate for the presidency and that according to polls the race is too close to call at this moment. Now I have begun to feel an urgency that I have never before experienced other than the time I had to dart into the street in front of a car that was speeding straight for the tiny toddler of a friend. Without pausing for a second I did what had to be done. I scared everyone with my bold move, but the child was saved.
Now I feel the same need to not mince words. Donald J. Trump is a convicted criminal who attempted to overturn a fair election. He is a danger to the very foundations of of democracy and yet so many seem to be bizarrely unaware that he is moving swiftly toward the annihilation of all that we have held dear in our nation just as surely as that car was heading toward the little child. If we do not use our common sense and love of country to stop this travesty then all of us, not just those who despise Trump as much as I do will become victims of an unnecessary tragedy.
The United States is not the hell hole that Trump claims it to be. Our economy is slowly but surely adjusting itself from the worldwide upheaval of Covid and inflation. The immigrants in our country are not the extreme danger that Trump describes them as being. We need to come back together and pass the immigration bill that Trump asked Republicans not to pass so that he would might use immigrants as a campaign tool. Nothing that Trump advocates is healthy or good for our country. Everything that he espouses is designed to keep him out of jail for his crimes. He is a bad person, a terrible citizen, a horrid choice for running the nation. I see this more clearly than ever and I have to be blunt in saying that God did not send him to heal us. He is as anti-Christian in the way he lives his life as anyone that I have ever witnessed.
If I can change even one vote that might have been cast in favor of Donald J. Trump I will have served my country well. I want to preserve the world of the great men who conceived our nation and believed that we would protect and improve it. I believe with all of my heart that Donald J. Trump is the evil that men like James Madison, Benjamin Franklin and George Washington feared might come along to tear it all down. We have the power to see the danger and set things right. We will be fine if we keep Donald Trump from ever returning to the White House again. I fear our destiny if we are blinded by his incoherent whining and lies. Be a hero when you vote. Send a message that you love the United States of America and will not stand for watching it reduced to a mockery of itself. Vote against Donald Trump and all who blindly support him. Save the United States of America.
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