my moments of exasperation, that the end to this debacle will bend toward democracy and decency.
The despair trolls and woe-is-me crowd, the loud, caustic critics of all things American are agitated for a reason. They want us to lose hope, give up, pretend we are powerless in the face of the Trumpsters, the Nazis, the White Nationalists who are spreading their hatred here and across Europe. It's no mistake or coincidence that the Trumpster and his odious acolytes are railing against NATO and the G-7, planning to pull out of the UN Human Rights Council, undermining what they claim is a global conspiracy of Allies because those Western safeguards stand between them and complete usurpation of the Rule of Law, democratic governance and values.
Democracy does not favor megalomaniacs and mobsters.
One need look no further than our southern border, the way immigrant children are being treated and abused to understand the fullness of their cruelty, their no-tolerance mandates and policies that would spread to the whole of the populace.
In the end, we will push the haters back under their rocks but we won't emerge unscathed. We will, however, have an opportunity to heal, repair and take our freedoms, our laws, our system of governance more seriously and accept the responsibility of citizen watchdogs.
Democracy, self-governance is a fragile, messy system. This has been a dangerous shot across the bow. Hopefully, we'll all take note and no longer take the fruits of that system for granted or retreat from making it a more just, more humane system for all.
Thanks for the reminder!
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