We've got to act

If you’ve noticed lately, at the risk of sounding redundant, I’ve been steering the direction of my commentaries towards motivating readers to vote in the upcoming fall midterm elections. As far as I’m concerned, it’s a moral imperative. Anyone and everyone who is properly registered to cast a ballot during the early voting period or on November 3rd, 2026, must do so to save this nation, or else we completely go down the rabbit hole.

A tremendous error was made in November 2024. We elected a president with no domestic policy, no foreign policy, absolutely nothing to help our nation grow into the future with hope and vision.

No. We elected a pure criminal who needed as much power as he could get in order to stay ahead of the law, and steal us blind shamelessly in the process. And he’s doing so at such a clip, it’s breathtaking.

Honestly, can you even keep up with the extraordinary number of schemes he’s got going on to fill his pockets, and the coffers of his companies?

There’s an old saying that “There’s a sucker born every minute.” Well Donald Trump could care less what the birthrate is. As far as he’s concerned, there are plenty of easy marks walking the Earth right now, and there’s absolutely nothing we can do to stop him.

Except vote.

This isn’t broken government we’re dealing with here. This is lawless, ruthless government whose only mission is to generate enough power to leverage plenty of opportunities to monetize on the sacred trust given to him by the American people. This criminal sees everything through the lease of an opportunist, which is why he’s so cavalier about public policy. He sees everything through the eyes of a dealmaker - someone who believes he has the absolute right to scam anyone who is breathing in order to ingratiate himself, regardless of the pain involved for the other person.

Life for Trump is purely transactional - nothing more, nothing less.

This criminal we’re forced to address as “Mr. President” while in polite company and in front of our young children, is also mastering our legal system against us, flooding the zone to test the rightful boundaries of the rule of law, seeking small breaks and fissures that give him an edge that can be exploited in the future if necessary. Many analysts love to point out how many times Trump has lost in court trying to force something to happen, without realizing that he’s testing to see if the system will buckle as he tries to kick down the door for his own nefarious schemes.

But of course, Trump also has a conservative majority U.S.Supreme Court to make his executive powers more muscular, and ambiguous, allowing him to get away with acts unimaginable in any previous presidency.

And then there’s his lying, and more importantly, Trump’s blatant and boldface willingness to lie just to build a bridge to the next scam. As far as he’s concerned, what the American people don’t know may hurt them, but who the hell cares? As long as there’s a buck in it for him, his family and his companies.

Of course, there’s Trump's vicious determination to go after his perceived political enemies, or those who dared to stand in his way as he worked his grifts. As we all know, Trump is nothing if not committed to make people who dutifully seek to bring him to justice, or just not carry out his every whim, pay for their impertinence. The fact that there are other living beings who have the absolute nerve and gall to even attempt to stop him in his quest for more power and the trappings that come with them is a personal indignity that he simply will not tolerate.

Those people must be destroyed, he believes. They must be made to feel small and powerless, as they’ve tried to do to him as Trump steamrolls through every social and legal barrier to ensure that the world never forgets his name nor his power.

Why does Donald Trump hate former President Joe Biden so much? Because Biden did the unthinkable, he beat Trump, in a way no one has ever beaten him before. Out in the open, in public for all the world and history to see per the 2020 presidential election. And Trump could care less what anyone thinks about him insisting that that election was stolen, because it was “stolen” from him he insists, and that’s all that matters.

The super-ego that feeds off of promoting hatred and division, that dares to attempt to rewrite the tattered history of this beloved nation. The manner in which he uses that hatred held by others to fuel his further desire for power, at the risk of literally tearing this country apart. All of that should sicken you!

And now we are knee deep in an intractable war that we can’t get out of, where the precious blood of several young, brave Americans has been spilt, and for what? So that Trump, his family and buddy billionaires can line their pockets while the rest of us grit our teeth paying for his misadventures with higher gasoline prices and ridiculous tariffs?

If you’ve remained with me this far into this commentary, then I truly hope that I’ve made the case for why we, the people, have got to act. Indeed we MUST act to clean this foolishness up. Trump has gotten away with doing things contrary to the normal expectations we have for our president of the United States because deep down, we’re all good people at heart. It is not normally in us to expect the rancid type of evil that criminal has brought to our White House.

But that must end NOW!

The only way to start bringing our democracy back from the brink is to first do everything in our power to make sure each and every one of us is properly registered to vote, intently paying attention to the issues that are foremost before us, and then, as soon as early voting starts here in North Carolina or wherever you’re reading this missive, you grab your legal photo ID, head right down to your early voting site and cast your ballot to remove any candidate from office who supports the misery Donald Trump is perpetrating against you and your family!

It’s the only way to rob Trump of his power over our government. We’ve got to start there.

WE’VE GOT TO ACT…NOW!