Can Democracy Survive Donald Trump?

I am back. I stopped blogging quite a while ago to work on other projects. I have watched and hoped and waited, but silence is no longer an option. America is in chaos. And though no one can be blamed for a disease, how badly our country has handled the pandemic can be laid at the feet of one man. More, Democracy itself is in its death throes. The President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, is rigging the 2020 election--right in front of us as we watch. It is not subtle, it is not gentle. We don't have to speculate, to guess. He told us the truth. He is willing to handicap the United States Postal Service, an institution created by the Founding Fathers as stipulated by the Constitution (Article 1, Section 8, Clause 7) in order to prevent mail-in balloting in November. He is also holding hostage the second Stimulus Bill that Congress recessed before finalizing, over the funding earmarked for the Postal Service, which makes up only one percent of the proposed stimulus package. Desperate to hold onto power, Trump is blatantly working to ruin the legitimacy of the vote, and/or disenfranchise massive numbers of voters. In the bargain he is willing to sacrifice the post office, which brings news, medicines, monies and goods to everyone it can reach. That disenfranchises and endangers the poor, the elderly, and rural residents. Trump wants to become a dictator and the Republican Party seems to be in lock-step behind him. Unidentified men acting on Presidential authority have been trying to incite violence in the name of preventing it in cities around the country as an excuse to declare Martial Law. Every citizen in America is being disenfranchised as we watch, and Democracy is dying in front of our eyes. Anyone who thinks Trump cares about his country is wrong. Their “man” is a traitor to Democracy and no one can deny it any longer. All he cares about is holding onto power, like a Putin or a Lukashenko. It has been said that every people get the government they deserve. We deserve better. You and I are inside, watching history being made rapid fire. In the next few months, the “Grand Experiment” will either fail and be tossed into Donald Trump's rubbish bin, or reassert its value and remove him from office before he can remove Democracy from America's future. That is up to us. Vote. Do whatever it takes to get your ballot where it belongs. Help others get to the polling place or get their mail-in ballot in on time. The only way to save Democracy now is to exercise our democratic right to vote.