“Fasten your seatbelts; it’s going to be a bumpy ride.”
The warning from Bette Davis could be applied to the political situation in America.
One political party is content to allow their leader to run “roughshod” over the semblance of democracy. According to an editorial cartoon in the Dallas Morning News, the other party, the unworthy opposition, says, “It’s concerning.”
In response, I ask the following questions:
- Does firing or forced resignations in the CIA make you feel more or less protected against international terrorists?
- Does eliminating the Department of Education help or hurt American children trying to compete in a global economy?
- Will trade tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports increase or decrease your cost of living?
- Do reductions in the Department of Justice increase or decrease your protection from financial fraud?
- Are you okay with immigration police invading schools and churches to apprehend illegal immigrants?
- Do you approve of a wealthy industrialist who has government contracts and has not been vetted by Congress influencing American democracy? Is this anything new?
- Will reducing US Aid and tariffs improve or hurt America’s position as a “ leader?”
- Are U.S. threats to leave the UN and NATO helpful or damaging to Russian political expansion?
- Are attacks on minorities (Latinos, Blacks, Muslims, Jews, LBGTQ+, etc.) consistent with democratic and religious principles?
- Do you believe that Russia invaded the Ukraine?
- Does firing or forced resignations of FBI personnel make you feel more or less protected against crime?
- Do you think peace negotiations without Ukraine make any sense?
- Do you think that the Gulf of Mexico should be renamed? How about Denali National Park?
- Do you think firing top U.S. generals helps or hurts America’s defense?
- Do you think Russia exerts too much control over the U.S. chief executive?
I hope you will consider your answers to these questions. Much is at stake. America’s future is in your hands.
Allen Mesch 