SO WHAT NOW, ONE MIGHT ASK?

       900,000 protesters are expected to be in Washington this Inauguration weekend. 900,000. These are people who are worried, who are traveling hundreds and even thousands of miles to make their voices heard. Unions, women, education, and we can go on but the import of it is clear. The mandate is not there, the majority did not want him, and though there are moral cowards who now are sniffing back in their original protests, namely politicians who want jobs, there are those with moral courage and backbones.
     Every day in the paper we read of the backgrounds of his nominees and almost to a one, they are guilty of being the opposite of what they should be unless their job is to ruin all the advances we have made. They have ignored the fact that thousands of people are now finally speaking up, worried over how they will maintain their health if Obamacare is repealed and there is not even an unsatisfactory substitute plan available. What they never had and finally did, they now stand to lose. Terrific!! Fantastic! Just great!! But really not.
     We have  a leader who is an inveterate liar, cannot tell the truth if he tried. For example, he now states that the Trump organization never had anything to do with Russia. Huh!! What were all those visits? What were all those attempts to name something, anything, over there with a Trump name attached to it? This man thinks that lies cover over all truths and you know what, it has been tried before and people fall for it. The Big Lie and isn't this showman just ever so clever with its use.
     He is clever in his use of Tweets for with their outrageous contents he blocks the media from paying attention to the real stuff and how horrendous it is and how little he has done in the manner of something positive or advanced. Regulations are ready to be dumped. No safety for workers. No environmental controls. All limitations on corporations and big banks - gone. Natural resources - why just gobble them up. Minimum wage, limitations on working hours, on UNPAID working hours, on discrimination in the workplace and everywhere else and on and on. I am nauseous and scared. What have we wrought?
     So yes, this end of week is depressing indeed but it is also inspiring and we and the rest of the world must hold this man's feet to the fire and force him to do the right thing, to talk with a straight tongue and not a forked one, to think - though that might be hard to do - and to learn the importance of policy, of thought, of honesty, of deliberateness and consistency. That is what we must pay attention to and what we must take him to task if he does not. Difficult and frustration but if not - not many other choices left, are there? And above all, we must, must, see that ethics and morality play a central role in all that is his administration.