Dear Editor,
While filling up her car at the gas station feeling ‘sticker shock’ like the rest of us a reporter asked her what she thought about Trump. She replied, “He’s worthless and I voted for him three times! Apparently I’m an idiot.”
While her response went viral I’ve been hearing more of the same as the number keeps growing with those who voted for Trump are falling between the cracks with the rest of us who didn’t vote for him. We’re all falling victim to Trump’s delusions and poor choices. Feeling lied to and betrayed. Lied about ‘no wars’ on his watch and better healthcare and the cost of groceries will go down on ‘day one’, yet keep going up.
Or saying he’s going to go after the worst of the worst when instead he’s going after nonviolent resident and Americans’ civil rights. Yet pardons white collar con artists and cop and wife beaters and child molesters. And so much for going after illegal drugs when he pardoned ex-Honduran president and drug trafficker who said, “I’m going to stuff cocaine up the nose of every gringo.”
And then there’s the elephant in the room. The Epstein files. Another lie and a broken promise and a White House coverup that’s now the running joke, “The Brits didn’t get nominated for an Oscar but at least they jail their pedophiles!”
What does that say about us? Or for a hot minute when Trump said he’d be there for Iranian freedom fighters and then bomb and kill their women and children and try to take their oil. No better than the people of Venezuela and now Cuba making promises to them while he breaks his promises to us spending billions of taxpayer money in other countries instead of ours. Take your pick there’s so many reasons to question your vote for Trump.
But it doesn’t make anyone an idiot wanting change and a better life for themselves. And that’s what they had hoped for with their vote for Trump.
But instead get a man wanting to wield his power as if he were a king instead of a president of a country with a constitution and a democracy. It’s been two years since Putin ordered and secretively killed Alexei Novalny who spoke out and ran against him and while Trump has called Putin his “famously good friend” and bends over backwards for him time and again when Navalny was asked what can one do to save their democracy he answered, ‘tell the truth.”
Not to cover his lies and threats. Sen. Mark Kelly is doing that as is a multitude of others that Trump sees as a threat to his power and control that’s only service the interested of him and his family and his billionaire donors and the most wealthiest.
It’s like the saying goes, “Do what is right and let the consequence follow,” or, being a Christian, simply ask what would Jesus do?
James Telarico a Christian and son of a Baptist minister and he a public school teacher and a congressman running for the U.S. Senate, who Trump has tried to block from TV talk show interviews, he said, “It’s time to do what Jesus did, it’s time to turn over the tables.”
It’s time to start speaking the truth! And those who voted for Trump are coming to the end of their rope as are many others with theirs. Those who believe in a democracy and the rights and will of the people. And if Republican leaders had half a backbone of those who are speaking out instead of making excuses for Trump we wouldn’t be in near the messes we’re in today.
The woman at the gas station told the truth and not cowering to all of Trump’s lies. She has the heart and moral courage and the will of many others who care about our country’s well-being, if not our democracy.
One thing leads to another if we let it slide and don’t speak out, like she did. Regardless of how many times she voted for Trump.
J.M.
