To the Editor:
I make no apologies to anyone for this. The fevered ego currently occupying our White House, his power hungry cronies taking positions of authority in his Cabinet and administration, and the majority of Republicans and Democrats in Congress are a real threat to all of us and our way of life. And unless you are worth billions of dollars, they are a threat to you and YOUR life, too.
So I will continue to be part of the solution by drawing attention to what’s happening and encouraging us to all resist. But I refuse to “play nice” in the face of what these people are doing. Our country’s well-being demands that we stand up and resist. Some people are saying that we should “work together” with Trump because he won the election and he is everyone’s president.
This is my response: I will not forget how badly others treated President Obama for eight years. I will not “work together” to privatize Medicare, cut Social Security and Medicaid, EVER!! We have paid every single dime into Social Security. It is ours, not Congress’ to spend to court rich donors from Wall Street. I will not “work together” to remove civil rights from anyone – like the evisceration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 or the continued partisan gerrymandering by the GOP. I will not “work together” to deny health care to people who need it. I will not “work together” to increase the profits of insurance companies, I will not “work together” to deny medical coverage to people on the basis of an alleged or actual “pre-existing condition.” I will not “work together” to build a wall, I will not “work together to persecute Muslims, I will not “work together” to lower taxes on the 1 percent, I will not “work together” to increase taxes on the middle class and poor, I will not “work together” to help the president line his pockets and those of his cronies, I will not “work together” to weaken and demolish environmental protections, I will not “work together” to sell American lands, especially National Parks, to companies which the despoil those lands, I will not “work together” to enable the killing in any way of whole species of animals just because the are predators, or because some people want to get their thrills killing them, I will not “work together” to waste trillions more on our military when we have the strongest in the world, I will not “work together to alienate countries that have been our allies for as long as i have been alive and longer, I will not “work together” to slash funding for education, I will not “work together” to cut basic assistance for people at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder, I will not “work together” with a mentality that twists peaceful protests into a lack of patriotism. Kneeling is NOT disrespectful to the flag.
I will not “work together” with a leader who bullies others, I will not “work together” to get rid of common sense regulations on guns, I will not “work together” to eliminate the minimum wage, I will not “work together” to suppress scientific research, be it on climate change, fracking, or any other issue where a majority of scientists agree that #45 and his supporters are wrong on the facts, I will not “work together” to put even more “big money” into politics, give the Klu Klux Klan, the Nazi Party and the white supremacists a seat at the table, or ignoring the FACT that a foreign country interfered with our elections while this administration has done nothing about it. I will not “work together” or honor a man who is a sexual predator, admires tyrants and dictators who murder their opposition, tries to eliminate or reduce ethical overbite at any level, normalizes tyranny, put children in cages, invite or condone violence against journalists, or ignore the murder of one, dismiss the intelligence community upon whom our national security relies.
This is the LINE AND WE SHOULD ALL BE DRAWING IT. Use your voice to reach out to the uniformed, and to anyone who will listen for whats really dangerous about #45, his friends and the BIG LIE they spin to the world, that “winning,” being “great again,” “rich beautiful or even white” is anything more than nothing when others are sacrificed to glory its existence. NUFF SAID
Robey Schnessel
Village of Polo Ridge
