Greetings. I am a voting constituent in rural west Texas.
Thought for the day: Civic Duty.
An active participation in the public life of a society in an informed, committed, and constructive manner, with a focus on the common good.
Do you see where I’m going with this?
Shouldn’t we have a president who understands his role in civil duty?
Should I even have to be asking the question?
But what do we get instead.
Encouragement of white supremacist violence in the guise of patriotic action.
“I got shivers,” Andrew Anglin, the founder of the neo-Nazi website the Daily Stormer, wrote Wednesday. “I still have shivers. He is telling the people to stand by. As in: Get ready for war.”
"Trump’s debate-stage call for volunteers to stand watch at voting locations has prompted an enthusiastic response from known neo-Nazis and right-wing activists, leading many state election and law enforcement officials to prepare for voter intimidation, arrests and even violence on Election Day.”
And we get this.
“Trump has been the “single largest driver” of misinformation about covid-19 on the web, according to researchers at Cornell University who analyzed 38 million articles about the pandemic in English-language media around the world.”
And there’s always this oldie but goodie.
“National Intelligence Director John Ratcliffe “ignored urgings from senior U.S. officials not to release information about Russian intelligence material containing unverified allegations about Hillary Clinton and the 2016 election,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “Officials at the CIA and NSA … feared that sharing the information with Congress would give credence to unsubstantiated Kremlin-backed material.””
Who could ever imagine we would have such an anti-American person elected to our presidency?
If only there was a system of checks and balances in place to prevent such abuse.
Oh wait. Never mind.
