General Discussion

My heart breaks for you as it breaks for this country that is being pulled apart day by day. Your brother is just one of many people who are being transformed into unrecognizably cold blooded haters who are just waiting to melt into a mob. They have been steeping themselves for years in the flood of lies, innuendo and race baiting on hate radio and Fox and are beyond the reach of reason.

Heavily armed white supremacists and garden variety racists are more than ready to start taking people out if Trump would call for it. And he might. They also hate liberals and progressives almost as much as they hate minorities and immigrants. They want to and believe it is necessary to purge people like you and me from their lives and this country. Our loathing and mockery of their demented leader is felt as a unforgivable insult to them and the more we rail about him the more they hate us.

Months ago that evil Trump troll, Roger Stone predicted (nay, called for) a violent reaction to any attempt at impeachment or removal and there is no doubt that is where we are going. Every day there are paramilitary groups training in rural areas for that day when chaos and lawlessness are unleashed. They believe it is going to come from violent gangs of immigrants and the minority underclass but the real source will be them. Our DOJ has chosen to ignore this threat when it is clearly the most pressing mortal danger to our democracy.

I fear and I believe that before this is over, there will be terrible violence from the right and a great loss of life including many police officers, National Guard and US military troops called in to quell the violence. I believe the haters will fail but there is no guarantee of that.

I wish I didn't feel this way but if you listen close you can hear the threats growing bolder and louder all the time. We all need to be careful and alert and probably more of us need to be armed.