A few words about this so called president

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“… land of the free.” “… with liberty and justice for all.” “… crown thy good with brotherhood.”

Most of us learned those words as kids. We know the songs and the poem. These are concepts that were planted into our young minds to tell us what our values should be, what kind of country we live in, and how we should see ourselves. They are ideas that most of us, to one degree or another, remember and perhaps tried to practice.

Given our indoctrination as children as to what we were to believe about our country, we were also taught by our families, and/or whatever environment in which we grew up, how to think in a moral and/or political sense. This probably wasn’t a “formal” type of indoctrination. Rather, it consisted of beliefs we adapted because they were the beliefs that those around us held and what we considered to be “normal.”

If you grew up in a family that stressed “tolerance,” that was "normal."

If you grew up in a family that hated “ni****s,” that was “normal.”

If you grew up in a family that hated Jews, that was “normal.”

If you grew up in a family that hated Catholics, that was “normal.”

If you grew up in a family that hated all “Thems,” that was “normal.”

So let me get to the point. Never in my lifetime have I lived under a president who told us to hate “The Other.” Never have I heard a president of the United States single out a race, or religion that needed to be hated.

That is no longer true. Donald Trump has told us to hate Muslims. Those are not the words that came from his mouth, but can any reasonable human being mistake the meaning of what he is telling us?

Then there is Trump’s appointment of Jeff Sessions as Attorney General. Who can possibly deny that Sessions is a lifelong racist/bigot? Yet our “so-called” president appointed him to be the highest law-enforcement officer in America. Doesn’t that tell you far, far more about Donald Trump than it does about Jeff Sessions?

And let’s not forget the dramatic increase in American anti-Semitism. Trump never said that hating Jews is okay. He didn’t have to. His not-so-coded speeches during his campaign, and appointing a white supremacist and publisher of a hate blog, Steve Bannon, as his main advisor was an “invitation/message” to every neo-Nazis in the world.

I could go on about what our “so-called” president is against, but that would be pointless. We know what he’s for. He’s for himself, (and perhaps, to some degree, his family).

Those words at the top, with which I opened this rant, describe what America is supposed to be about. Donald Trump is a toxic, grotesque example of everything our country was never intended to be.

It’s one thing to be a terrible human being. It’s another to be a terrible human being with the power of life and death over every living thing in this world. (The nuclear codes.)

I really have no clue as to why enough Americans voted to put this man in power. But what I do know is that every moment he’s there, no one is safe. No one, anyplace on this Earth.

So perhaps someone can tell me why this strutting, smirking, embarrassment of a man occupies the Oval Office. And is there anything we can do to make the Republican Party rid us of him?

The only way that this incredibly ignorant, dangerous man can be removed from the presidency is by impeachment (or mental incapacity).

But who currently decides that impeachment is necessary? The Republican Party. (My personal reaction to this is “oy”.) My guess is that we’ll see pigs fly before we see enough Republicans with the moral integrity, or just plain conscience, to vote to end the reign of this man.

Republicans (and all politicians) worry mostly about their own reelections. The fact that Trump may be the greatest threat to America since the Civil War, WWII, or the McCarthy era means virtually nothing to most political creatures.

However, making Donald Trump the president of the United States, evidently didn’t terrify enough American voters.