When paranoia seems like a reasonable response

Do you remember that 1960s Buffalo Springfield song, “For What it’s Worth,” and the lyric “Paranoia strikes deep, into your life it will creep?” I do. And paranoia isn’t creeping into my life…it’s flying at me like a fast ball through a plate glass window.

Every time I turn read or watch the news, I do so with fear and a near-paralytic dread.

Will I discover Donald J. Trump has just fired more people, thrown a bunch of cruise missiles at North Korea, stonewalled Congress, blurted out yet another state secret, took health care away from 20 million people, ignored Russian hacking, defunded the restoration of Puget Sound, or that he lied (again)?

Does anyone seriously believe he’s not capable of all that, and more?

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So I’m flummoxed. I always trusted our elected officials would do the right thing, or at least not the really wrong thing, the thing that threated lives and liberty.

But trusting Donald Trump? He’s done nothing to earn my trust. He lied and bullied when he was a business mogul/TV star (and bragged about it); he lied and bullied on the campaign trail (and famously bragged about it, saying he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue. and his people wouldn’t care); and he’s lied and bullied as president.

Donald Trump has no stated belief system. His words (by his own on-videotape, recorded statement) are meaningless and worthless the nano-second they escape his lips. He’ll turn on anyone, for anything, in a New York minute. And he has no experience dealing with crisis.

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