I Object!

  

by Pa Rock

Citizen Journalist

One of Donald Trump's primary operational strategies is to sling so much shit, so fast, that the news media, and certainly the public, cannot possibly keep up with his outrages.  These onslaughts against our environment, heritage, values, decency, and intelligence are relentless.  We are constantly awash in his narcissistic whims and vulgarities, but before we can form the resolve to deal with today's Trump-initiated crime or crisis, he is already on the internet ginning up the next one.

I am angry about a lot of Trump crap, but my options for challenging or voicing my opposition to his self-promotional garbage are limited.  I have marched in street protests a few times in my life.  Those forays into public resistance were usually fun, but seldom seemed to effect any change.  Today, it is all I can do to march to my mailbox in the afternoon to pick up the advertisements for guttering, thermal windows, and hearing aids.  I can launch a complaint into the social media sewer, such as I am doing right now, but it will quickly sink into the constant sludge of noise and distraction.

My congressman and US senators don't read their own mail, and they respond to written communications from constituents with form letters and requests for donations.

I am angry about Trump's crackpot war on Venezuela, but war falls under the constitutional purview of Congress, and my congressman and senators have abdicated that power and responsibility, and shuffled it off to the White House - a situation which denies American voters their most direct input into decisions about our country going to war.

I am angry about Trump plastering his name everywhere.  Some of my professional training is as a social worker, a field in which I worked as a therapist for more than a decade.   I have a copy of the DSM-5 within reach of where I sit typing this morning, and through it and my own work experience, I know that narcissism is a mental disorder and something that is not easily controlled,  but the behaviors narcissists exhibit affect others, nonetheless.

I object to Trump and his cronies that he put on the Board of Directors at the Kennedy Center placing Trump's name of the national memorial to John F. Kennedy, a war hero and a politician who was not encumbered with a laundry list of felony convictions,  I object to that desecration of John F. Kennedy's memory, I object to it strongly - but so what?  If too many people object too loudly, we'll go to war with Paraguay and change the subject!

I also object to Trump strong-arming the Treasury and US Mint into putting his image on a dollar coin to celebrate the 250th anniversary of American Independence.  I heard a news report on the radio this morning which indicated that national insult is still in the works.  A US law from 1866 prohibits living people from being represented on any "bonds, securities, notes, fractional or postal currency of the United States," but, as Trump would probably say, "So what?"

Add to the fact that putting Trump's face on a US coin while he is still alive is illegal, putting a convicted felon on a US coin is in extremely bad taste and monstrously unfair to the millions of Americans who have spent their lives working hard and following the law.

We deserve better.  Much better!

I object.  I object.  I OBJECT!

(Somebody make a note of that.)