WAKE UP AMERICA!
Your country, your ideals, your treasury and your future are being stolen by a Criminal Leader whose very stupidity, avarice and audacity make him the most dangerous threat we have ever witnessed in our lifetime.
WAKE UP AMERICA!
Your institutions are crumbling under the crushing weight of the evil that has taken control of the levers of power, and through them the entire mechanisms of American government and constitutional law.
WAKE UP AMERICA!
We are a nation at war, and for no good reason. Distraction is not an acceptable reason to go to war or to kill people by the thousands. Distraction from the Epstein files, distraction from the manifold failures of our government, distraction from all the ways our criminal leader is attempting to both enrich and aggrandize himself. Distraction from the now boarded up Trump-Kennedy Center. Distraction from the fact that previously conquered diseases like measles are making a comeback. Distractions from the fact that our Criminal Leader and his Republican Party are now attempting to rig the upcoming mid-term elections.
WAKE UP AMERICA!
Among the many lies told by our Criminal Leader is that we went to war to stop Iran’s imminent nuclear threat. A threat once neutralized and controlled by the treaty Obama negotiated in 2015 then disavowed by our Criminal Leader in 2018. If Iran became a nuclear threat, it was only because our Criminal Leader’s actions forced them into becoming one.
WAKE UP AMERICA!
We have lost America’s place in the world. No longer are we the light upon the hill. We have become the bully on the world stage. Those tariffs imposed by our Criminal Leader, seemingly adjusted willy-nilly at his whim, have caused nothing but higher prices and global uncertainties, all in service to one man’s ego and need to be the center of attention. Those cuts to foreign aid made by the world’s richest man, under the guise of improving government efficiency, will result in the deaths of 14 million people, according to the British medical journal The Lancet. We have quickly shifted ourselves from being the hope of the world to becoming its biggest threat.
WAKE UP AMERICA!
It’s no accident our government’s delivery of services resembles what one might expect from a 3rd world military junta. Incompetence and corruption show up everywhere. In crowded airports, costly gasoline prices, health guidelines set by fanatics, and in an emergency management system that withholds emergency relief from states whose political leanings are not deemed acceptable. But also in pardons and merger approvals that only come after the exchange of payments or gifts. And in FCC rulings designed to attack the First Amendment and our free press.
Ours has become a government for sale, and you don’t have to guess where the proceeds will end up.
WAKE UP AMERICA!
The rule of law no longer exists. Nor can it exist while the person responsible for enforcing law has declared for himself the power to ignore all lawful restraints. Nor can it exist while the people responsible for pursuing justice and enforcing our laws have abandoned their principles and honor to secure their positions.
Violence and brutality have been unleashed on our own citizens, well-placed criminals are treated lightly while the weight of the government hammers down on individuals whose only real crime was to anger one man.
WAKE UP AMERICA!
We can’t wait for the wisdom of the Constitution to save us, for we are drowning in circumstances our founding fathers never anticipated. With a Supreme Court as corrupt and amoral as our Criminal Leader, actively crippling an ongoing investigation into the second insurrection in our nation’s history to save one man’s political future. With one of our two political parties so fearful of their Criminal Leader they will pledge their honor and obeisance to a man who lies almost every time he opens his mouth. A man cited by juries of his peers as a rapist and a criminal fraud.
WAKE UP AMERICA!
The only way to free ourselves from this scourge of a Criminal Leader and his legions of cronies and sycophants is to vote the Republican Party out of existence. Or, failing that, to vote them out of the majority.
But we better wake up and do it soon!
While there is still an America left to save.
Oh, Paul. You have summarized things so well here. Thought it’s exhausting and anxiety provoking to keep informed, we must. I think it has to get far worse before it gets better, unfortunately. But you have put this moment in perspective….
Thank you, Margaret. Funny thing is I’ve purposely shut myself off from the news, printed or televised. It’s just impossible to escape what that 5 ton gorilla is doing to a world growing more fragile everyday. Seeya around the neighborhood!
Paul,
Your “Wake Up, America” call should be sent as an Op Ed to the New York Times, The Nation, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, etc.as well as to The Republicans against Trump/ The Meidas Group and every major Progressive Podcast and AOC and Bernie Sanders. The only problem with your CALL is that it is limited in its exposure / outreach to the masses.
Your essay is a spark. We need a National Menorah of freedom. Your essay is the Shamas candle. Use it to “light the Menorah.” Your essay,placed in the widest media, will impact the Mid Terms. Also send it to Hakeem Jeffries. I would also include Obama on that list. I would add a 21st century version of “When in the course of human events paragraph as an intro. A list of T-Rumps crimes against America.
If you ever run for congress, sign me up as a volunteer.
Best,
Harris
Paul,
Your “Wake Up, America” call should be sent as an Op Ed to the New York Times, The Nation, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, etc.as well as to The Republicans against Trump/ The Meidas Group and every major Progressive Podcast and AOC and Bernie Sanders. The only problem with your CALL is that it is limited in its exposure / outreach to the masses.
Your essay is a spark. We need a National Menorah of freedom. Your essay is the Shamas candle. Use it to “light the Menorah.” Your essay,placed in the widest media, will impact the Mid Terms. Also send it to Hakeem Jeffries. I would also include Obama on that list. I would add a 21st century version of “When in the course of human events paragraph as an intro. A list of T-Rumps crimes against America.
If you ever run for congress, sign me up as a volunteer.
Best,
Harris
Thank you, Harris. I’m about to send it to the Globe, with little real hope of them responding. Will send it to a few other outlets, as you suggest. Thanks for your response. It’s of immeasurable help!
Warmly,
PSS
Paul, the state of our affairs are in shambles on so many fronts as you accurately described in your blog.
The only recourse to right the ship of democracy and destroy the corruption of our government is to encourage all Americans to vote during the mid- term and upcoming elections in 2028. Otherwise, this nation will no longer be the home of the free and the brave.
You’re absolutely correct, Howie. Other than starting a rebellion, the only recourse is to vote the Republicans out. Ideally, before the midterms and before the Supreme Court hands the election to the Republicans. I’ll let you know when I’m assembling my Congressional campaign staff. You’ll be Chief of Staff for certain!
Best regards,
PSS
Forgive the non sequitur in the last sentence of my reply. I accidentally put it in the wrong response. Thanks for responding!
Paul
Thanks, Paul. Once again you’ve written with insight and righteous anger. We especially value your repetition of “Criminal Leader” and the call to “Wake Up America.” May many more of us embrace what you’ve offered. and respond accordingly.
THANK YOU, BROTHER. YOUR WORDS ARE——AS THEY ALWAYS ARE——BALM, INSPIRATION AND ENCOURAGEMENT.
WARMLY,
YR BROTHER,
PAUL