I can no longer sit by idly
Last night was the tipping point for me. I watched the rally in Greenville, NC, with the 13 second adoring approval of our President*, reveling in the chants of "Send her back" arising from his people in that auditorium, and I saw an eerie foreshadowing of what the Germans must have viewed in their land in the years leading up to World War II. I am not willing to watch my nation become a realm of fascist totalitarianism. Apparently my belief that this situation would not fester but would instead be resolved by rational and sane opposition was seriously misplaced. Listening to the vulgar, uncivilized leader of the executive branch continually dissemble and blatantly spout untruthful nonsense is nausea inducing. As Rick Wilson succinctly and insightfully wrote recently in the pages of The Daily Beast : "When Trump reads a speech written to meet the rote demands of the presidency, somewhere in the bowels of the White House speechwriting office, some guy grinds out workma...
