Ideally, our actions should be determined by a combination of reason and passion. Conventional

wisdom is that while reason is the rudder that guides us, passion is the wind in our sails that moves us. IMHO, we have, for some time now, been so concerned with our rudder that we have totally neglected our sails and have failed to take advantage of favorable winds.

Trump is nuts!

All other considerations pale beside that fact:. The current occupant of the White House is a mentally unstable person whose primary characteristics are that he is a pathological liar, he is totally amoral and he is a fundamentally mean person. Removing him and his acolytes from power is THE issue that we need to face.

Yes, the election next Tuesday is our most immediate concern---because winning a majority in Congress will allow us to repudiate the malignant aberration named Trump. But, please, let's stop this hesitant "gee-I'm-sorry-to-be-critical" approach to current politics. Calling a liar a liar or calling a grifter a grifter or calling a maniac a maniac is not being "uncivil". It is telling the obvious truth and when dealing with monsters like Donald Trump, to do less is to invite more extremism; more mean-spirited attacks.

It is time for righteous anger, guided by reason, to be given it's head.