#PresidentsDay2018 is a distressing day for millions of Americans, who face the reality that the current president refuses to protect this country against cyber-assaults by a hostile foreign power he seems to be in the sway of and which helped elect him... thedailybeast.com/another-presid…
... the sobering reality that far from being offended or outraged by Russia's intrusion into our democracy on his behalf, Donald Trump welcomes it, and may even hope it happens again on behalf of him and his party... thedailybeast.com/its-clear-dona…
... constant White House scandal washingtonpost.com/news/energy-en… and a rolling investigation that is exposing the core corruption at the heart of the current American presidency ... latimes.com/politics/la-na…
... embarrassing past rollingstone.com/politics/news/… and present behavior by Donald Trump ... washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-tu…
... a complete collapse of America's influence and prestige around the world ... vox.com/world/2017/6/2…
... a voting system that remains completely vulnerable to both domestic voter suppression and foreign intervention, in part because the president of the United States and his party want it to be that way ...
... attacks on the poor, the elderly and the vulnerable that rival anything that has happened in this country since the turn of the 20th Century, including a Trump proposal to end heating assistance to the elderly: abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/t…
... and of course the infamous Trump food box, which serves no purpose other than to humiliate and control the poor, while introducing yet another opportunity for corruption in Trump's America: usatoday.com/story/opinion/…
There's so much rot, it's hard to catalog it all. And add to that the 18th mass shooting in the country in just the first two months of the year, which has placed the burden of fixing this broken aspect of our society onto the shoulders of teenagers: abc57.com/news/parkland-…
We are a leaderless, flailing, depressed, internally hostile country led by a narcissistic, erratic, kleptocratic, wannabe Putin. We are so far from the kinds of good leaders this country has occasionally produced it's hard to fathom there ever was a Lincoln or an Obama.
The @washingtonpost editorial board sums it up well: The Post's ed board tried: washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-s…
The hope is that after just over a year of this, the American majority has had enough, and will take action at the earliest possible date to turn this ship around, by ending the one-party government and absolute rule of the party of Trump.
Because the cold, hard truth is that they serve only one God: gq.com/story/the-repu…
And until we change course, the poor, the elderly, people of color, immigrants, Muslims and Jews, LGBT people, school children and college kids and women are all at risk. Our economy is at risk as the world withdraws from us. This is not what America should, or has to be.
