Time to Wake-up and Smell the Coffee....

He's sure he's going to be Emperor. He needs to be stopped.

I have been away, on a desert island where I laid in the sun and watched young people chase each other around in the timeless breeding ritual that the Beach Boys celebrated in their ear-worm song: Kokomo.  

Uh, just kidding.  I took time away from this blog because I have maxed-out on the public discourse and all the negativity surrounding the race for the White House.  The terrible debate performance was a 'last straw' for me.  We are now staring down the barrel of a political debacle that could very likely leave us living in a Trumpian dystopia. Okay, it's his wet-dream, but for us, non-MAGA, people who both understand the critical importance of our democratic form of government, and what it would mean to have a mentally-ill sadistic s.o.b. of a criminal running every damn thing with the powers of a king bestowed on him by the Supreme Court....the term 'nightmare' seems apt.

 Donald the Idiot is gloating and probably is feeling much more certain about winning back the Oval in November.  He's justified in feeling this way because the long-running discussion of whether or not Joe is mentally capable and physically vigorous enough to be president for another four years seemed to come to a convincing culmination in this disaster of a debate.  Seeing Joe all blank-faced, mouth agape was a shock; he seemed almost transfixed.   Increasing numbers of Americans, are convinced, after seeing this performance last Thursday, that he is NOT capable.  The numbers who feel this way seems to be growing daily and it would not be surprising if enough Dems finally will agree that keeping Joe on the presidential ticket is a form of political suicide.

Could he serve another term and stay healthy and sharp enough to accomplish all the tasks that he would face?  I don't know, and neither does anybody else, especially those who claim to know. But, what I can tell you is that it almost doesn't matter if we all insist on pushing to have it our own way.  Ben Franklin was the Founding Father who said: "We must all hang together, or most assuredly, we will all hang separately."  He is purported to have said this at the signing of the Declaration of Independence.  Old Ben knew whereof he spoke.  

It sounds trite but this truly is our national 'Come to Jesus' moment.  If we don't figure out how to pull together as a united front against MAGA and their despotic leader....we will lose and the cost will reverberate for generations.  It's not a stretch to speculate that America might never recover from this man.

Take one example of how dire another Trump administration would be: climate change. The Orange Idiot doesn't think it's real.  He's said lots of times that it's a farce put up by his favorite scapegoats, the Chinese.  One might be tempted to think that surely, by this stage, the general population would have noticed how much stronger hurricanes, tornadoes, wild-fires, and floods have become.  It's right in our faces now and anybody who is still denying that is just too dumb to bother with. 

But, if we have a Dear Leader who is a denier and pushes back against any meaningful measures to try and slow it or soften it, it will continue accelerating and become cataclysmic.  It may do so anyway, because we're coming to the party very late. Don't take my word for it; tens of thousands of scientists, planet-wide, have recognized that not only is Climate Disaster real, and upon us, but that it may well be the ultimate issue that wipes out humanity.  It's not a secret that the planet is becoming unlivable, more so each year.  We don't often hear the term 'diaspora' but it is happening; huge numbers of people are fleeing parts of the planet that are rapidly becoming un-survivable. 

So, hear me and the countless others like me.....now.  If we manage to fail at creating a united front against this monster, we will reap the whirlwind.

Whatever it takes, set aside personal issues and desires.  Do not dare to think that you can walk away because you 'don't like' Joe, or whomever is going to replace him.  If you say to yourself, "Well, they both suck....so, I'm not voting at all".  Then you are a traitor to the planet and the human race, not to mention the countless species we are destroying as we go down from our own stupidity.

Stop Trump!!!   Or be prepared to live with the consequences and explain it to your kids and grandkids.