“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
- J.R.R. Tolkien
If you are among those of my dear friends and family who remain in the thrall of Donald John Trump you may as well stop reading here. I realize now that you will not be convinced by anything I can say. We now know that the "Fifth Avenue" of the supporters Trump referenced applies not just to NYC but to the "Fifth Avenues" in Rome Georgia and most other cities and towns in the country.
There will be an election this fall, despite the pandemic, and for now the campaign is pretty much limited to TV and social media. The future of America demands that, just as we managed presidential elections during the Civil War and again during WWII we must do it again during a plague. This time we MUST change horses; the one we are on has been into the locoweed.
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It is sad fact that our president dismantled our pandemic protections early in his presidency and then, even though briefed on the eminent pestilence, he crassly and for political advantage downplayed it --- even calling the whole thing a Democratic hoax --- while the virus ignored political philosophy altogether and just kept replicating itself among communists and libertarians, Democrats and Republicans, Socialists and Democratic Socialists. Anarchists and Mugwumps. Now Mr. Trump preens daily before the cameras and professes bipartisanship, while he derides the free press and takes the most ordinary journalistic questions as attacks on himself.
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Well, Donald John Trump I suppose this is an attack on you. You are the greatest impediment to a unified defense against the pandemic. On my 73rd birthday I am frightened not so much for myself or my fellow old geezers, though we will lose many of our number in this disaster, but for my younger family and friends who must rebuild our republic.
We must politically obliterate Mr. Trump and his ilk on November 3.
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