(#5775) My hope is we survive trump

      I am not sure of anything anymore. Not that I have ever been absolutely sure of anything. But even more now I am just as in the dark about our future today than ever before. At least in the past I was optimistic about our society sticking with our foundational principles of equality and freedom as a rule but not anymore. Now it is a hope. It seems there are other more important principles than equality and freedom that are a priority but for the life of me I cannot tell you what they are. Even those who voted against equality and freedom cannot tell us what they envision as principles greater than these. I can suspect what these principles of theirs are but I prefer to let them tell us.
     By being mostly silent about what will happen going forward is my way of those who wanted this to learn themselves what they didn't know. I cannot teach them to be good human beings but maybe trump can teach them what bad human beings act like. I will try to guide but I will be silent for the most part. I have spent many decades of my life advocating for the principles of democracy. Even in these many daily blog post of more than 15 years there are records of me doing so. But now I will just keep to myself more than usual because I don't know how to reach out to those who have not listened to reason in the past. That will have to fall to others who use different methods than my failed ones.
     If we do survive the trump debacle to our democracy we should count ourselves lucky. Because we have set ourselves up for a defeat to our democracy our history has never recorded before. The internal forces that make up republican politics are going to have to find a way to help the rest of us who are not going to stop fighting to preserve our 248 year heritage. If enough in the republican party can join forces with us then we have a chance to stop trump from dismantling our democracy so he can fulfill his dream of ruling over America and establishing a tyranny for all future generations to endure. If not then our chances remain slim. I know that no one can know the future but we can get a sense of things from now. I hope for the better within our democracy to help save it.