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Note to the anti-Trump extremists and their supporters: 

            Do you understand that you are participating in a soft coup, an attempt to undermine not just President Trump and his administration, but our entire system of government?

            Do you understand that your efforts to bring down the president are misguided, that the ends do not justify the means?

            I fear that many of you do not really understand this, that you do not understand what you are doing or the long-term consequences of your actions.  But, then, why should that surprise me when most people today cannot see beyond their own noses and are nearly fully focused only on immediate gratification.

            So, the goal is to bring Trump down, to get him out of the white house.  Why?  Have you been persuaded by the extremist propaganda that paints him as another Hitler or worse?   Have you bought into one or more lines of the left and progressive hysteria about a particular issue that is important to you?  I am not saying that the Trump administration will not view and approach things differently than did prior administrations.  Yes, the Trump administration believes in smaller government and more power to the states.   Certainly, it is possible that things will change – that is what happens when we have a new administration – but not to the extent that the over-the-top hysteria would have you believe.

            Have you actually listened to what those with differing political views, those now duly elected to public office, have to say?  No, of course you haven’t – you are too busy shouting them down, screaming over their attempts to answer your questions at town halls, refusing to listen to any views that do not parrot your own or those of the ideologues whom you worship.  Those ideologues encourage you to scream down any differing views, because listening to other views threatens their power, and their hold over you.

            Do you really believe that in order to reach your (or your ideologue’s) goal of ridding the country of President Trump, that it is OK to subvert the very government that you think you are trying to protect?  Is it really OK with you that government employees, tasked with protecting the national security of our country, leak secure and confidential documents to members of the press friendly to their (and your ideologue’s) cause?  Is it really OK with you that firings and other actions occur within the government based on the press’s reports of leaked information that may or may not have been verified or fully presented?  Are you really willing to participate in the destruction of our government and our democratic system just to remove one man whom an orchestrated propaganda campaign has taught you to hate?

            If you truly believe that these ends justify the means, then I think that you do not understand how our democracy works.  The way we change power and policy within our government and its institutions is not by political assassination but by election.  Those whom you are serving are in the process of creating a system in which there is only one voice, the loudest or strongest voice, the voice that is willing, by any means available, to silence all opposition.  Such a system is called a dictatorship.  And, those who participate in creating such a system should remember that in the future they too could be among those chosen to be silenced.

            So, please, wake up, think beyond the propaganda, understand how our system works.  If you support the system, rather than the subversion of it, in the end your voice will truly be heard and we will continue to have a country in which diverse views are welcomed, not silenced.  To support the system does not mean that you have to accept all it does or that you have to like everyone who has been elected or appointed to a position of power.  There are ways to speak out about what you do not like other than by subverting the very system that you (and your ideologues) claim to be protecting.

            Please, take a day to step back and move beyond blind acceptance of propaganda put forth by ideologues who care not about our government or our country or its people, but rather only about their own power.  Take time to learn the actual facts, not just taking the ideologues' propaganda at face value. Spend some time thinking for yourself.  Take time and consider whether you really want to serve the purposes of ideologues in order to gain some immediate gratification for yourself.  Or, are you willing to take the slower, harder road of supporting and working within our system to effect the changes that you believe would lead to a better America?