Shock, Dismay and Sorrow

The country knows Donald Trump, even more so than when he was president four years ago. They know he governed impulsively, cozied up to dictators, was a habitual liar, had no regard for the rule of law, broke the law, caused an insurrection, elected super-conservative supreme court justices who overturned Roe, and exacerbated a great divide in our country. To quote him I can stand on Fifth Avenue, "shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose any voters."

Four years later, it has gotten worse--his ugly rhetoric, his barrage of insults, his blatant disregard for laws, his disregard for the norms of government, his misogyny, his racism and his hunger for vengeance. Every day for the past few months, he monopolized the television with promises to continue all this--and more. He is waiting to dismantle the government, so he can put lawless cronies (Steve 

Bannon, Roger Stone, Stephen Miller, Elon Musk) into office. My God, Robert Kennedy will have a position as the Head of Human Services, overseeing our public health and well being. One of Kennedy's positions, aside from being an anti-vax person, is to take flouride out of water, the very element which protects our teeth against cavities. Forget it if there should be another pandemic. He could not wait (he and his lethal running mate, J.D.Vance) to jail his enemies. Believe him; he will. All the cases now offered in a court of law will go away, and he will release the January 6th prisoners who broke into the capital. Women, people of color, people with disabilities are insignifcant in the eyes of the new government. He is old, probably demented, and what is left is truly ugly.

YOU all knew this, you meaning over half the country; you knew this at a time when our country was beginning to gain back some off its lost esteeem and when our economy was among the best in the world, getting better daily. Accordingly, my biggest disappointment is the America I once knew is now gone. Were you that scared to have a woman of color in office? Over half the country voted for him, including in most swing states. These are the same people who would punish their children for being a bully, yet they voted for one, and for someone who has no moral compass, no integrity, no decency, and will make the world an awful place for generations to come. He will do nothing to avert climate change. He will make the rich, richer; the poor, poorer. He doesn't care about you, but who are YOU--so many people, who could vote for a would-be-dictator who has no problem deporting ten million immigrants, might cut social secuirty and medicare and cares nothing for the well-being of our planet. 

I am shocked and deeply sad that there are so many people in this country who have signed on for this, who now are extremists, maga people. I can't imagine a regular Republican (is there one?) would find Maga acceptable, but clearly I am wrong, so all I can say is I am disappointed in the American people who find this behavior acceptable. YOU carry the burden of lethal possibilities into our future, so all I can say is I don't know or understand this world. As an idealist whose heart is now broken, I can't comprehend  how YOU can look your children in the eye when the world spirals, and say this is  anything but indecent. The enemy is within, but not just in him, but now it's on your shoulders, too. I join my idealistic friends and family, all of whom are now weeping for the new world, one I do not know--nor do I ever, ever wish to know-- to mourn with me, the death of a dream of possibilities.