What to Do?

This President of ours is exhausting. He has no filter and is in constant defensive mode. If the man has nothing to be ashamed of in his life he should be welcoming every and any investigation that he might be associated with, having open arms to prove that he is an upstanding and honorable person worthy to lead this country. Instead he shouts “witch hunt”, calls a lawful investigation an “attack on our country.” Does he even know that this country is based on checks and balances and not on a dictatorship? He is running this country like a kingship giving top positions to his loyal friends and family and not based on any other kind of merit.

Read our first female Secretary of State’s new book by Madeleine Albright called FASCISM a Warning. Her views point to the glaring example of what is wrong in government by pointing out the flaws of President Trump. We can not have a President who believes that he is above the law. She points out that Trump is the most un-democratic President that we have ever had. Part of what he is doing is to under mind Democratic prophesies. We have to hope that Congress will do its job and stand up to why they are there. The First Article of the Constitution is about the power of Congress. It is time for Congress to prove that they are a equal Branch of our Government and to not have a bullying President who lies and takes into his own hands the law.

Trump has to realize that the world is listening to every word he says as our leader because the world respects America. Last week he boldly said without any consultation that he wants to pull the troops out of Syria. This week he spent millions of dollars bombing Syria.  We can not have a flip flopping policy. We need a strategy. Syria is a very complicated place and is basically a proxy war for everything happening in the Middle East. The Iranians and Saudis and the Shia and Sunni influence there is a melting pot of very angry people. Most Americans don’t know much about Islam no less than the difference between Shia and Sunni beliefs. Then there are the differences between the Arabs and the Persians. Then there is the problem with the Turks that do not like the Curds. It was the Curds that were helping America to get rid of ISIS and that is just the major issues.

Then there is the Dictators of the region of Putin backing Assad with weapons and influence over the chemical warfare killing his own people who dare to oppose his leadership. Diplomacy has to be tried and not just more mass killing. Policies have to be negotiated and implemented. None of that reasonable thinking is happening. Trump is our dangerous appointment who has very hardline views. He doesn’t have a good National Security Advisor because they have been leaving the job like a revolving door of candidates in the past year, the only year of Trump as President. The job of the National Security Advisor is to listen to all sides and to listen to others in our government like the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of State. Trump in tweets doesn’t even warn anyone of what he intends to do. He is a very dangerous man.

If Trump really wants to do something about the poisoning of children in Syria, he needs to consult with his good friend Putin and at least suggest that Putin stops funding the weapons being used in Syria. Diplomacy is much more effective in changing a mindsight than any destructive weapons. A Democracy is about respecting all people of different faiths and beliefs but managing our lives in a peaceful co-existence. Dictators don’t even know what that is.

Fascism is alive and well in the world and we need to learn of the dangers from it from history looking back at the beliefs of Mussolini and Hitler. Now we have elected leaders in Hungary, Turkey, Poland , Philippines and Venezuela who are running communist governments put there by not so truthful election processes. These men in power in these places have an attack on the press, have a lack of respect for democratic institutions, they think they are above the law , they have rallies and propaganda to get folks excited and to move to violence and not to respect the views of others in peace and a harmonious life together on earth.