There’s a thing I gotta say. Ad I gotta say it here because number show no one is listening here. I don’t want to start a family feud or split my group of friends.

   I was watching The Daily Show, John Stewart hosting because it’s Monday night [3/11/24]. I take it with a grain of salt because I know he leans to the left but he’s still funny.

   As usual they were taking on Donald J. Combover and I was shocked by persons claiming blind allegiance to The Don. One basically said “If he wants to be a dictator, let him be a dictator.” Another said “He could commit a murder on the White House steps and I would still be with him.” [Never mind that murder is not only a crime but is one of the No No’s expressly forbidden in The Bible, that other document besides the Constitution that these same people seem to believe so deeply in. Mr. Trump will have immunity – he hopes.]

   The sad and scariest part was that these people were not joking. The fact that 60 % of the “Republican” Party still think that the 2020 election was stolen from “Them / Donald Trump” says a lot about something. Unfortunately, I think it says that Mr. Combover has tapped into a pool of ugliness and hatred deeper than any Saudi oil reserve, cloaked it in an American Flag and “patriotism” and “taking back the country” and “making America great again” and a whole lot of people bought it hook, line and sinker.

   The sadder part is that the rejection of Hillary Clinton that brough Mr. Trump into the Oval Office was taken as a mandate by the Bible thumping, God fearing prigs that they spoke for Everybody. And when Everybody spoke in 2020 and Mr. Trump lost as fair and square as he won, suddenly the game was rigged.

   I voted for Trump in 2016 because I dd not want Mrs. Clinton as the President. But after watching Mr. Trump in action for four years, I would not have voted for him if he was the only candidate on the ballot. Nor did I vote for a lot of his friends and people he endorsed. I did not like the way the country was heading. If that makes me “Un-American” and a traitor in the eyes of some people, so be it. I exercised my right to vote as guaranteed by the Constitution you all claim to love so much.

  I will concur with Mr. Stewart on this point [I paraphrase]: “If you want to pledge your allegiance to Mr. Trump, if you like what he says, go to the rallies, buy his shoes, sing his praises and vote away – but please don’t call it Patriotism.”

   Don’t tell me he is the only person who can “save” America or make America “Great” again. America will be fine once we get over bickering over every petty little thing and reunite in the things we share. When we see our neighbors as people again – maybe with different ideas, traditions and values but people none the less. Once we remember that compromise is necessary and not everything is “my way or the highway.”

    Four more years of Donlad Trump may turn into the biggest bloodbath on American soil since the Civil War. I do not for a moment believe that Mr. Trump has any interest in leading or legislating any longer. I think he is blinded by the thought of taking revenge against those who stood against him – which means everyone who was not blindly loyal to him. And unfortunately, the Republican Party which once stood to unite the country has become a party of divisiveness who can be the biggest uptight prig on the planet.

   History tells us that this swing to the hard right will eventually swing back toward the middle and that this great national anger will dissipate. I hope to see that but I do not expect it anytime in the near future. Meaning any time this decade.