At campaign rallies Donald Trump, a sexual predator, whipped up racism, sexism, intolerance, hate and xenophobia to a fervent pitch reminiscent of Hitler in Nazi Germany. Trump’s propaganda wizards and rabid minions spread misinformation, propaganda, and hate and incited vile acts across the land. This was done with intention it was the active deployment of a phased plan to destabilize the 2016 presidential election in favor of Trump in order for Russia to realize its goal of establishing a Putin puppet in the United States White House. It worked. And now in their quest to devour the freedoms and liberties inherent in all of the major democratic nations remaining, the wizards of deceit and illusion are continuing to practice their dark craft leveling their laser focused sights on creating misinformation chaos in European Union. It seems to be working.
Trump has installed a cabal, that will roll back civil liberties by, at the very least, fifty years, a cabal that will side with Russians by actively removing presidential and allied sanctions put in place in order to protect a democratic Ukraine from further Putin invasion and annexation. They will lift the sanctions in order to gain access to the Russian arctic shelf in order to drill for vast deposits of crude oil in order to fuel a time in history who days should be numbered. They will blithely destroy advances made to protect our precious earth at a time when we should be moving forward toward sustainable energy, and a greater commitment to clean and healthy environments for the children of earth, for the grandchildren of earth and for all the plants and creatures that inhabit it. They have decided it is their right, their privilege to decide the fate of millions of humans, creatures and plant species in their unquenchable quest for power and money.
Their harsh policies are about money, power and control, their goals are not about improving the quality of life for Americans, or for America. They sit in their ivory towers oblivious to the fact that we are all living upon a plant with exhaustible supplies. Oblivious to the fact that we should be wise caretakers of our planet in order to guarantee survival for our children or grandchildren.
We continue to sit on this magnificent blue ball hurling at light speeds across a mysterious universe, while perpetually falling. We owe it to ourselves to adopt an abundance space ship mentality and not a life boat mentality. Trump wants you to think that the ship is sinking that we have limited supplies and not everybody gets a share, in his mind a few poor saps get to be thrown to the sharks to fight for survival.
In reality we are aboard a beautiful space ship, with a potential for infinite possibilities, for peace, for love and for the pursuit of happiness and equality for all humans. We can create this vision together. And indeed the seeds of this universal love began thousands of years ago in the beginnings of the world’s great religions sharing key commonality, the golden rule that simply states that we aspire to do unto others as we would have them do unto us.
Trump and his cabal do not operate from a shared vision of lifting all humans, only some humans. They see the world as their private board game where they can at their whim act in any manner of their choosing, including putting all of humanity at risk with talk of escalating a nuclear arms race and promoting nuclear proliferation while beating the drums of war and terror. They are intolerant, racist, and cruel humans.
These are the humans we have allowed to lead our nation. A philosophy professor of mine in Europe once told me that a people receive the leader they deserve.
We deserve hate and vile acts? We deserve a sexual predator as president? We deserve someone who has proposed that climate change is the politicization of science while imposing moral judgement on the private lives and health care decisions of women and their families? We deserve someone who promotes religious intolerance and doing away with civil rights protections for citizens while conjuring images of concentration camps and prison walls? We thought that Trump and his cabal were influenced by white nationalism, white supremacy and neo Nazism when in actually they are openly collaborating with actual Nazis and legacy SS political parties in Europe. And they have sided with a foreign power, a Russian Kleptocracy in belittling the work and efforts of hundreds, if not thousands, of members of the intelligence communities both domestic and foreign in the US. They have made a mockery of our political voting system and have supported and promoted, even asked for, the direct hacking of and intervention into that very system. They have put at risk the basic tenants and principles of our American democracy
I was born in West Germany as a dual national, an American GI was my father and a German bar maid my mother. My German family experienced directly the results of the Holocaust, such as forced sterilization, illegal abortions, the disappearance of learning disabled children and the incarceration in concentration camps of Roma who had married into the family. I know the risks that are possible when ordinary people think they are making the right decision and then end up in the annals of history as human monsters.
The day after the election, I protested in a major city, the signs were all across the board representing common concerns for civil rights, religious liberties and demands for the protection of soon to be negatively impacted American citizens and immigrant communities. We knew that day as now that many of our citizens and immigrants were in terrible danger. In the ensuing weeks I have attended progressive meetings, protests, prayer vigils, and rallies working to protect the environment, to protect our immigrants, to protect our native, to protect civil rights, and to protect a woman’s right to safe abortion.
I created a bumper sticker printed with “not my president” and drive around with it every day! I have boycotted organizations that sell Trump product and do Trump business from the list at www.grabyourwallet.org. I have donated money to numerous causes to fight Trump’s election and the evil work of his cabal. I have signed countless petitions, called the White House, emailed and called all my state representatives, I have talked my head off, blogged, shared on social media and challenged support for trump, his cabal, his minions and his policies at every turn. And I will continue to do so. I find comfort knowing that millions of like -minded Americans are doing the same!
I will not allow their evil reign to define me or my life. I will continue the good career work that I do, I will continue to create art, practice yoga, and take care of my health. I will continue to love and support my family and I will protect them. All passports are up to date, including the foreign passports. I will never for a moment think that good American citizens can’t turn into human monsters complicit in the stuff that nightmares are made of. It can happen here just as it did in Nazi Germany. The risk factor increase when real Nazis and former SS have received a place at the table in the White House.
Maybe this country does deserve a sexual predator as a leader. Maybe it deserves someone who incites hate, violence and intolerance. Maybe it deserves someone who may risk the very existence of the planet.
What we need is a bleeding heart liberal to lead. We’re bleeding hearts because we are willing to bleed in our fight for freedom, justice, opportunity and equality for all Americans, and just for grins we like to include our global brothers and sisters in our mission. Dear Gods, Goddesses, and all that is holy, please give us the wisdom, strength and courage to fight for a more “perfect Union”.
And tomorrow I attend one of the “Million Women March” in one of our great capitols.