State of the Union

An hour of the bluster and bragging was all I could stand. I felt sad seeing this morally broken man dish garbage to the American people. We turned television off and got a glass of wine to chill out.

We who live in America and go to the grocery store and the gas station know prices are high. Food prices are increasing. Heatingand electricity are too. The state of the union I live in is teetering under autocratic leadership that is seemingly impossible to stop.

I heard someone say they worried that democracy and the American way was damaged to the point it might be hard to bring back to its glorious fullness.

The fact that America has not been the land of plenty, the land of equal rights and equal pay, may be some of the problem. Justice is one step forward, two steps back.

In conversation with a neighbor, another progressive, he talked about American fascism. American fascism compares to the Ku Klux Klan in its cruelty, and to the French Revolution in its gilded glory.

The paving over of the rose garden and taking a wrecking ball to the East Wing of the White House, reveal a President’s ambition to make all things bear his image.

I hate to tell him, but that is what got the wayward Hebrew people in trouble once upon a time.

Thankfully, a healthy, full-throated resistance is growing louder and louder.

No one with a moral conscience could think the state of the union is good. We are tarnished and stained in the presence of this cult of sycophants.

We have a “K” shaped economy. The wealthiest among us are supporting the money machine that is the Trump presidency,while the rest of us get squeezed in the rising costs and diminishing rights.

There is something wrong with this picture. The most we can do is vote and pray that people will awaken and realize that Trump is not good for America.

Because I write, I get all kinds of mail-in response. One reader suggested that I want the president assassinated. That is wrong. I do not want any harm to come to him.

I believe God can work miracles among us. We need a miracle right now as we declare war with Iran.

Spiritual awakening comes among us at the most necessary times. A little awakening would be a good thing. Surely the Trump playbook is getting old to more and more of us.

I am a Baby Boomer, born in 1946. I tell Tom we might have lived the best years of America.

As a person of faith, I cannot lose hope. Easter is coming and new life is on the horizon.

We must keep on keeping on. We cannot afford to lose focus. I think about the millions of people who have lived before us and the hard times in which they lived.. The martyrs often die. I am willing to keep the faith and the fight all the way to restoration.

Lib Campbell is a retired Methodist pastor, retreat leader, columnist and host of the blogsite www.avirtualchurch.com. She can be contacted at libcam05@gmail.com