Wednesday, January 29, 2020

America Beyond Trump

by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist

Call me naive, if you must, but I have the sense that the Trump administration is winding down.  Oh, I know that pundits and politicians have been predicting that fire will begin falling from the skies once Trump is finally acquitted by the Senate and he is able to focus his energies on retribution, but I suspect Trump's wrath will be short-lived and soon DJT will be back to his normal routine of tweeting insults and playing endless golf.

Trump has mentally packed it in and moved to Florida.

The biggest disappointment of the Trump administration has been, to me at least, its lack of a positive vision for the country.  Other Presidents have sought to move the country forward, to create changes that would be viewed as their legacies and stand as uplifting moments in our history.   But Trump chose to pull the country backward to a time of more segregation by race and class, and a time when there were fewer protections for the poor, the infirm, the elderly, and the oppressed.    He claimed to be making America "great," but, in reality, he was tearing her asunder.

America should not be about hatred, race-baiting, hurling insults, mocking the disabled, taking people out, or turning a public trust into a profit center.  For three years now we have been letting Donald Trump define us to the world - and, more importantly, define us to ourselves.  But we are better than that, and we sure as hell are better than Donald Trump!

Trump is heading toward the door, and we must focus all of our efforts on helping him leave.   The House majority must be strengthened, the Senate must be flipped, and the White House must be returned to the people!

For America to once again stand tall, we must all rise with her!

1 comment:

methven said...

...well said Rock, well said!