I had really thought that life would settle down. I had really thought this. Even that idiot apparently thought that last weekend - lo scorso fine settimanna, to work in a little of my Italian study -- in the Big White House would be pleasant. It did not turn out that way.
Part of it was the enormous number of people who turned out to express hate and discontent regarding his -- I hesitate to call them policies; more like legislative temper tantrums. I doubt that the people in his inner circle discuss this, but I would bet that they quickly agreed Don't tell him, denigrate the marchers, tell him its just a passing thing, they'll get over it. Which may actually be the case, but I don't think so.
I believe that the flurry of spiteful, hateful actions this week are in response to that. Telling the EPA that they could not publish their findings until a politician says they are acceptable -- doesn't that sound like East Germany when there was an East Germany? Saying that organizations could not use Twitter (his preferred method for getting to the people. And of course, telling people who want to communicate with the White House that they must use a specific venue in Facebook - one that, as it happens, does not exist.
I really hate this. I am proud and amazed by the hundreds of thousands of people who came to the march on Saturday in DC, as well as at other locations -- I did not go, but I picked up my wife and two friends afterward, and just the sensation of being surrounded by people who were happy, laughing, glad to be there -- it was delightful. It was invigorating.
I don't know what happens now. But never have I feared so much for the integrity of my country. Which is in a way ironic, because those are the kinds of words that right wing zealots -- the kinds who put up web sites with names like Patriots, Assemble! and Liberty's Guardians and the like -- like to use to describe the country. Its not going the way we of the fierce right think it should go, and so we are all doomed! I used to laugh at them. I still do, a little.
But mostly, I just want this nightmare to end.
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I marched in DC on Saturday and I'm glad I did. It is possible that if this is to end, we all need to actively do more to push back? I'd rather not spend my time marching and demonstrating and phoning politicians, but I'm told that this is necessary so I'm doing it.
I give money when I can, but boy does it feel inadequate to this onslaught of hate and sludge. I keep asking myself what do I see as evil and reprehensible in him that even his followers would, too? Even if they would never admit it to a liberal. And I am damned if I know.
This is not going away. Our people have voted and this is what we got and unless the lawyers work and the protesters continue to protest and the rest of the world begins to strangle our participation in trade wars, this is going to get a LOT worse before it gets better. The GOP like the power and do not care how they got it. The DNC has no one to blame but themselves.
Trump will continue to insist that his way is the only way. To me, removing him from office has to occur. And given that the levers to do that are controlled a) by a bunch of self-selving politicians, and b) a bunch of self serving Republican polticians, the likelihood of that happening any time soon is faint.
Never have I wished for someone to have a cerebral hemorrhage.
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