Having just reached my 70th
birthday, I decided to celebrate with a septuagenarian blog instead of a staggering
number of candles. If someone ten years
ago had suggested that at this age I would be an active member of the “Resistance,”
I would have laughed. In January, 2017,
I began my blog in response to Trump’s inauguration, because I truly feared for
the future of my grandchildren. I still
do with great anxiety, but in addition, there are multiple other vast levels of
concern about Trump and his cronies. Just
a few examples:
·
Racism – He referred
to Neo-Nazis as “very fine people,” attacked a Muslim Gold Star Family, claimed
a judge was biased because “he’s a Mexican,” has discriminated against African
Americans his entire career, refused to renounce KKK leader David Duke,
originated the “birther” movement against President Obama, and has stereotyped
Jews to their face.
·
Hate Crimes – Under
Trump such crimes increased 15% against Latinos and 38% against Arabs. Anti-Semitic crimes in just the first quarter
of 2017 increased a whopping 86%!!!
·
Enemy of the Free
Press – Trump and his mouthpieces like Sarah Huckabee have created a state news
outlet of Fox News – equivalent to Pravda of the Soviet Union, Rodong Sinmun of
North Korea and China’s People’s Daily.
Fortunately, their efforts to hamper the flow of real news through
legitimate outlets has failed.
·
Destruction of the
Environment – Among the multitudes of programs and rules slain by this
administration are such things as eliminating NASA climate monitoring, rollback
of car emissions standards, cuts to clean energy programs, loosening of
regulations on toxic air pollution, downsizing of national monuments, halting
of mining health study, canceling rule to protect whales, pulling out of Paris
Climate Agreement, expansion of offshore drilling, denying protection for
endangered species, reopening of streams to mining waste, etc., etc., etc.
·
Incompetent and
Corrupt Administration – Leaving Trump’s ineptitude aside momentarily, he hires
or attempts to hire those who are completely ignorant of or antagonistic to the
agencies they are hired to oversee. Scott
Pruitt is just the latest of those whose only aim is stealing as much as they
can from the American people while destroying whatever they were hired to
administer. Examples are Betsy DeVos,
Tom Price, Michael Flynn, Jeff Sessions, Ryan Zinke, Mike Pompeo, Kirstjen
Nielsen, Elaine Chao and many others.
·
Health Insurance –
Consistent attempts to overturn Obamacare, including eliminating the individual
mandate which will make premiums more expensive for others, reinstating
pre-existing conditions exclusions, eliminating a key subsidy and promoting
health plans that don’t meet minimal requirements.
·
Emoluments – The
Constitution prohibits elected officials from accepting gifts or payment from
foreign governments. Trump’s refusal to
divest himself from his worldwide businesses lead him to perpetual violations
of this clause.
·
Income Tax – What
do Trump’s returns show? He promised to
make them public.
·
Immigrants – His
immigration policy defines Latino immigrants as criminals. This policy has separated families, kept
children in cages and required one year olds to appear by themselves in
court. He wants to stop legal Muslim
immigration by suggesting that all of them are dangerous. He said he would prefer immigrants from
Norway. I am the descendant of
immigrants, and none of them came from Norway.
·
Malignant
Narcissist – I have written a blog on this subject in the past, and he exhibits
all of the indications.
·
Exhibiting many
signs of mental illness – Dozens of prominent psychiatrists have stated that
Trump has a dangerous mental illness and is not fit to be president of the
United States. Recently a Harvard
psychiatrist said Trump is a sociopath and very sick. His moodiness, belligerence, erratic behavior, inappropriate tweets and
quickness to anger are all key indicators of the onset of dementia
·
Women’s rights – He
pulled back protections for women workers; called breastfeeding women
disgusting; consistently denigrated women for their looks; advocated punishment
for women getting abortions; pushed back against paid family leave; boasted about
sexually assaulting women; called pregnancy an inconvenience for business; among
others.
·
Trump lawbreaking –
Defrauding Trump University students, breaking Federal law by claiming proceeds
of his products would go to charity which was not done, violating election law
by emailing foreign officials asking for political contributions, using his
charity to finance his presidential run, using illegal immigrants to build
Trump Tower, being caught illegally not paying sales tax, and more ad nauseum.
·
Nepotism – Ivanka
Trump and Jared Kushner have no qualifications and no business being members of
the administration. Kushner has still
yet to receive complete security clearance.
·
Trade War – Fortune
Magazine says, “America will likely be the bigger loser.”
·
Immaturity – Trump
is the equivalent of a schoolyard bully who pats himself on the back for making
up nicknames.
·
Russian Sanctions –
Although almost unanimously passed by Congress, he has ignored them.
·
Lack of Focus –
Aids have reported that he is incapable of reading any report more than a few
paragraphs long. He was unable to
remember the words to “God Bless America.”
His impromptu remarks are rambling and filled with unrelated
digressions.
·
Governing by tweets
and insults – No explanations needed.
·
Total lack of honorable
and civilized behavior – Slandered dying Senator McCain, pushed aside a world
leader so he could be in front, mocked a disabled reporter, called nations he
doesn’t like “shithole countries,” and raced ahead of 92 year old Queen
Elizabeth.
·
Electioneering –
His rallies are nothing short of fund-raising events for his re-election, which
we the citizens are paying for.
Horrifyingly, they are reminiscent of Hitler’s in which he claimed,
“Germany wants a leadership in which it can believe, nothing more.”
·
Lies – He lies, and
lies, and lies, denies he lies, and lies some more. In his first year as president alone, he made
more than 2,000 false or misleading claims.
·
The opposite of
patriotism – Trump has humiliated, disgraced and debased the United States of
America.
·
Treason – It’s no
longer a question of collusion – it is outright treason. Allies and enemies have been switched. After a secret meeting, Trump stood next to
the former KGB agent and dictator of Russia Putin, who is intent on denying
American democracy, and accepted Putin’s lies instead of the truth of United
States intelligence.
From
January, 2017 until now, I have gained thousands of blog readers and twitter
followers, and to all of my supporters as well as opponents, I give this
promise. The gloves are off. I will not stop; I will not give up; I will
not get worn down; I will not be silent; I will not become disillusioned; I
will fight; I will persevere; I will march; I will vote: I will resist and I
will persist. I’m joined by
multi-millions with many more awakening to the dangers every day. The tide is turning but we will not let our
guard down. Our voices will be heard,
louder and louder.
