I chose the wrong profession. I should have become a fact-checker. I would have made a fortune.
Yes, this letter is about President Donald Trump, whose one-hour-and-six-minute speech to the joint Congress I watched last night. Those of you who read this and are upset that I’m not showing deference or respect to POTUS are correct.
I cannot and will not respect a man who lies with impunity, whose every word must be checked, whose incoherent statements must be translated by his aides and surrogates because they create such confusion, whose actions belie his words, whose unethical conflicts focus solely on increasing his family’s net worth, who lashes out rudely and crudely at those who don’t agree with him, whose narcissism is over the top, who doesn’t hesitate to use a grieving widow as a prop, who denies scientifically validated climate change, whose Cabinet choices are on record as wanting to destroy their departments ... and on and on and on.
I cannot “get over it.” In fact, I feel badly for his supporters, whom I believe will eventually regret having voted for him. Guaranteed that he will disappoint them.
I am not an economist, but I’m pretty good at math and see that there is no way his agenda of very expensive goals makes sense or will be passed by a Congress supposedly interested in decreasing the federal debt, not increasing it.
I understand why he won: both parties have continued to make promises for years that they failed to keep to the very voters they recruited to vote for them. There are strongly fundamental problems with our entire political system. Money talks. Con men walk into office.
But voters, please educate yourselves, engage, participate and support a man or woman who is real and authentic.
That is not Trump, and all of us will be sorry that he inhabits the oval office with his band of swamp-rat aides and Cabinet choices by his side.
Salye Stein
Durango
