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I’d like to share a comment I made to someone who I am friends with on Facebook (albeit never met) and who appears to write rationally and think in an unculted (new word alert) way.

 

I respect many of your opinions. Here’s what I would like to ask you.

 

We realized and admitted that Jimmy Carter was not a good president. He was undoubtedly one of the most intelligent presidents having a degree in nuclear engineering. He was by far the president that did the most good post-presidency in our country’s modern history. He had an unbelievably big heart and pure soul.

 

But he wasn’t great at being president or being a politician. He was so bad at it that he conceded while the polls were still open everywhere on the West Coast, thereby dooming the chances of many Democrat candidates because people by-and-large go to vote for their presidential candidate and once that is no longer a viable act, they stay home.

 

My question to you is when will you admit that Donald Trump and virtually everyone around him are not good for us or for our country? On paper we are still a very strong country. But our strength and our standing have been damaged immeasurably on every front in just one year. China has made enormous in-roads in South America and throughout Asia. Russia is seeing their best chance to take back land as far as the eastern side of the old Berlin Wall. Our allies are rightfully distancing themselves and lack any trust in us economically, militarily, or culturally. And you’re smart enough to know that Saudi Arabia and Qatar and Turkey will never have our backs if we really need them.

 

Meanwhile, the dollar has fallen precipitously while everything other than the stock market shows our economy weakening and headed to a recession. And I don’t know what respect people had as of last year for what actually holds this grand experiment together which is the law, but trust me when I say that the vast majority of people have zero trust now in the DOJ or FBI or even Supreme Court to be anything other than corrupt.

 

Just two days ago the FCC officially admitted it is nothing more than the arm of the GOP. That’s insane.

 

I am honest to admit Harris would most likely not have made a great president. She might not have even made a good president. But she would not have made a terrible president who treats our country and its resources as a personal slush fund; who sells pardons and favors like Sonny Corleone; and who relentlessly harms those Americans with the least to enrich those who have multi-century-lasting wealth.

 

We all need to stand together to say, “Enough.” Democracy is a team sport. Let me know if you’d be interested in working together to move the health and welfare of our country back in a good direction. Because we aren’t heading anywhere good, let alone great, right now.