Please, America, Wake Up

Well, it’s working.  Make enough noise, obstruct until nothing can get done and then claim the president is ineffective/does nothing.  Leak enough documents and other information with no proof of their accuracy and then complain not only about the content of the leaks but also that there are leaks.  Rant, rave, create hysteria and then claim that there is hysteria due to the one you are ranting against.  Clever.  But also very destructive.

I really don’t know what the end-game for the Democrats is, other than to restore their own power.  But I do believe that their end game has nothing to do with me or my best interests or those of any one else in this country.  Sure, they claim they care about the people, but they are only using them to restore themselves to power. Can no one see this?

I am troubled by the fact that the Democrats cannot accept election results, cannot accept that there are views around the country that disagree with their own.  I am troubled by the fact that their concerted effort to bring down the Trump administration seems to be working or at least moving forward.  I am troubled by the fact that they believe that only they have the right answers for the country and its people and that they are unwilling to work with anyone who represents or was elected by those with differing views. 

Why is this troubling?  Because it reflects a complete lack of understanding of our democratic republic.  It reflects a desire to turn our government away from the principles upon which it was founded.  It represents a restrictive view of democracy that, while claiming freedom and diversity, in actuality further and further restricts the democratic freedoms to which we have been accustomed in this country while forcing us into a non-diverse nation of people who all must hold the same views and behave in certain dictated ways. 

Is that the America that those who so blindly follow the leaders of the “resistance” seek? For isn’t that “resistance” ultimately a resistance against the basic tenets of our democracy?  An attempt to bring the current administration down by questionable leaks, by innuendo, by unproven allegations, by a refusal to work together and across the aisle for the good of the country, all of those are ultimately a refusal of our democracy itself.

I am not only tired of the Democrats and their hysteria, but I am also terrified of what is essentially a coup that is occurring.  This is a coup not only of the current administration, but of our democracy itself.  And, perhaps the most troubling, if not a sure sign that it is working, is that the media is a full participant as it presents the innuendo and allegation as fact, as rather than simply present news it editorializes in a way that fully supports the “resistance,” and as it fails to fully report all, including positive, actions of the administration, and fails to present stories that cast negative light on anyone involved with the “resistance.”

Our republic, as founded, is certainly not perfect, but it is pretty darn good, and far superior to most other forms of government.  It allows us to be individuals, not only with external and identifiable diversities, but with diversity of values, thoughts, and ideas.  In return it asks us to work together for the common good.  We have done this in the past and  we can still do this, but not when faced with a massive “resistance,” a resistance that refuses to accept opinions other than its own and rather than work together to solve problems would simply silence, in any way possible, those who disagree.  Without tolerance of other views, including tolerance when those views result in the election of leaders not of the “resistance,” there can be no democracy nor the necessary working together for a common good.  There can be no country, or at least no country as we have known America until recently.

So, sadly, the attack of the “resistance” continues to gain momentum.  The 24-hour news cycle keeps things energized.  Facts are no longer important as hysteria energizes the crowds.  People believe the hype and the innuendo.  Those who do not are silenced, by screaming voices, by actual violence, or simply by fear.  And, if the “resistance” wins, what then?  Will everyone really be so pleased to have their lives, not just external, but internal views and thoughts, under the full control of their leaders?  And even if they agree with those leaders today, will they still be so happy when those views do not agree and their individuality is no longer tolerated? 

This is a very bad nightmare for American democracy; I pray that it is only a nightmare from which we will soon awake.  While I have little hope for the leaders of the “resistance,” I hope desperately that the minds of their supporters and followers will awake and think, that they will begin to see and understand the real end game of the “resistance,” and the consequences if it succeeds.