“…it’s a very dangerous thing to have the wrong person elected to high office.” This is from Marine General John Kelly who spent a year and a half as Donald Trump’s Chief of Staff. He was one of Trump’s closest aides who saw him on a daily basis. He is one of over ninety former officials who worked for Trump who now warn he’s not fit to be president again. Kelly has spoken to the New York Times. It’s frightening and we should all pay attention. Kelly says Trump would govern like a dictator, and he has no understanding of the Constitution or the rule of law. He made admiring statements about Hitler. Trump said more than once, “Hitler did some good things, too.” He had contempt for disabled veterans and for those who died in battle calling them “losers and suckers.” Kelly said Trump is a fascist who admires dictators. Kelly fears Trump would make good on his promise to use the military against Americans. “He just doesn’t understand the values-he pretends, he talks, he knows more about America than anybody, but he doesn’t.”
Much of this we’ve heard before. But this comes from a very credible source. We all can’t wait for this long, ugly campaign to be over. We are saturated with hateful political ads that show us to be a country at war with itself. This is the most critical election since the Civil War. We’ve let this self-centered, hateful, convicted felon con millions of people to think he is going to win their country back for them. They don’t understand that he doesn’t care about them or making their lives better. It’s not about policy. He doesn’t care or understand any of it. He cares about power and revenge. He has no use for the red hated crowds who wait for hours to hear him spew his venom. He only wants them to vote for him. Because it’s only about him.
The president reflects the country that elects him or her. We are witnessing one of the most divisive times in our history. There are two extremely different visions of what we want the country to be. But this has turned into an historic decision that will determine the course of the country for years. Both sides are dug in. Trump tried to overthrow the government the last time, and he lost that election. Think of what he would do if he actually won the election and had control of the government again.
Thomas Jefferson had a warning for the future. “The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chants of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.” Listen one more time to the man who saw the monster up close. John Kelly warns Trump…”never accepted the fact that he wasn’t the most powerful man in the world-and by power, I mean an ability to do anything he wanted, anytime he wanted.” We should take this all as a final warning.
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