We think of a new year as a new beginning or a refutation of an older negative item, be it thought or action. So here we are on the cusp of a new year, 2018, and now what? We have had numerous dissections of what happened in the election of 2016 and we still have not reached a definite conclusion about it. Mueller is still working, Trump et al are still dreaming of a clean slate, and a quick end to this whole issue, America is turning in on itself, hatred abounds, anger abounds, but what? Will we all toot the horns and wear funny hats as we ring in the new year and what? Dispatch the old with all it entailed?
That ass, Trump, is still tweeting about his great achievements of his first year and perhaps he is correct. He has singlehandedly, albeit with the wimpy spineless Republican Party, tried to destroy our future in so many ways. Environment. Trade. Peace. Alliances. New terrifying terminology. Attacks on the fourth estate - the press. Destruction of a pristine area of Alaska. Ditto for Utah. Tax welfare for the rich. Finally, an open acknowledgement of that. Disbanding of protective legislation. Attempt to repeal the healthcare for so many and now they own this disaster they have created. Creation of a decisively partisan Congress with little hope or chance of bipartisanship. Acceptance of sexual predators as the predator in chief sits in the Oval Office. Introducing a manikin as the new First Lady. The gall to piggyback his so called economic achievements on the back of the results of the improvements of the Obama years.
It just goes on and on so.... is there hope for the New Year? Well, the Utah's Salt Lake Tribune has basically outed Senator Hatch for the creep and disaster he is and called on him to retire. The Democratic party is beginning to wake up. The resistance to Trumpism and its perverted and twisted ways is rising. And people are beginning to scream about the greediness of the uber wealthy and their corporations. We need to roll back the inflated drug prices, reassure our citizens that we will not allow Ryan to cut entitlement programs such as Medicare, food stamps, Social Security. Yes, of course there are abuses within these programs, but one does not discard it all for a few creeps. Do we discard capitalism, democracy, because there are creeps and sinners within it who twist it and take advantage of others? No!! We attempt to fix it and battle against those who would reverse all that we have gained.
There is so much to be done, from fixing the messes he and his buddies have created, to winning back our allies, to tempering the mouth of the president or better yet, removing him from office and giving him time in a mental institution where perhaps he can regain his sanity and mental balance, restoring the regulations to protect our environment and our citizens, and if we run out of ideas, Sanders had a good idea. Now while I do not always agree with some of his suggestions, he had a great list of what we could do with $1.5 trillion dollars that we are now handing over to the Fat Cats. Make college free. Grow universal kindergarten. Fund CHIP program for 107 years. Repair our crumbling infrastructure. Rebuild Puerto Rico. And I could add in a few like properly fund entitlement programs. Work on clean water for our citizens. Educate people on our unity rather than on our differences. And we could go on and on BUT....
This all takes work and interest and devotion and sincerity. It means taking abuse from those presently in power. But....we the people can do this if we are serious about it. We the people are the heart and soul of this country. We are the raison d'etre of its existence. Let us once again reach out and up and inspire admiration from the world, give hope to the world and show them the power of the people.
WE the People. WE THE PEOPLE!!
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