It’s been months since I last wrote about President Trump’s GOP-assisted assault on the foundational principles of our democracy. Part of the reason is because the last thing we need is another white man spewing his political opinions onto the screens of the Internet, and part of the reason is because there’s so much shit coming at us that it’s difficult to pick a focus.
Should I write about the ongoing extinction-level event that we laughingly call global climate change?
Should I write about my democratically-elected representatives and state-sponsored police forces allowing a citizen of this country to falsely imprison tens of thousands of innocent children, separate them indiscriminately from their parents, and pawn them off to adoption agencies to dispose of?
Should I write about the way a white, corporate-conservative minority in this country installed young-faced judicial allies to lifetime appointments in the highest court in the land?
Should I write about the continued loss of our schoolchildren to violence, loneliness, anxiety, and depression, and how continuously rising trends have yet to spark an all-hands effort by the men and women in charge of marshaling our resources?
Should I write about our elected leader’s emboldening of authoritarians around the world, from white nationalists here at home to strong-armed tribalists in Saudi Arabia to genocidal scorched-earthers in Myanmar to ruthless oligarchs in Russia?
Should I write about how the thought of trying to maneuver a VerExit with the United States (i.e., Vermont’s peaceful political, economic, and cultural secession from the United States) is humbled by the difficulties besotting the remaining territories of the British empire as they try to disengage from the European Union?
Should I write about how terrified I am of what I fear will happen on November 6th when the world media reports (and the rest of the world accepts) that the majority of the United States prefers to be ruled by an old, white, corporate-conservative minority made up of millionaires and billionaires?
Should I write about the civil war that may be coming and the gentrified manner in which it will be fought?
Should I write about my dream of democratically-elected representatives comprised of working men and women who congress for a limited time, discuss and decide on issues, and then return to their working lives?
Should I write about the racist harassment and threats that forced the only African-American woman serving of the floor of the Vermont State House to resign her position?
Should I write about the way the members of the Executive Branch ought to behave, the ethics they ought to have, or the weight of the public’s trust they ought to feel?
Should I write about the President’s National Security Advisor counseling him to re-ignite a nuclear arms race with Russia and China?
Should I write about the doubt we all must feel about the results of any election in the wake of Russia’s demonstrated attempts to influence the election of 2016?
Or should I write about…or should I write about…