To evaluate ANY president – look to the Constitution’s Preamble:
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure
domestic Tranquility, provide for the common Defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure
the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution
for the United States of America.”

ALL actions by a President Trump, or ANY president, must lead to and contribute to “Union..Justice…
Tranquility..provide for the common Defence..promote the general Welfare.”

SO – in Trump’s first term, did putting three rigidly “conservative” zealot “justices” on the already ethically challenged Roberts “court” lead to decisions that, in “justice” Thomas’ words, “follow the traditions and history” of America?
For example – where in 1787-2005 American “traditions and history” is there ANY suggestion the Founding Fathers did, or would have, ever EVEN considered giving any president ‘IMMUNITY’ for any actions he/she took? Why does Article II, Section 4, contain these words: “The President, Vice President, and all civil officers of the United States. shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and convicted of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.” ???
If. ANY. president could be impeached – then why would the Founding Fathers give him/her ANY form of “immunity”? If they thought a president should be like a king, having immunity protection from his own citizens – then there’d be no impeachment possibility, right?????

How can we have “no man is above the law” – and give any president immunity??? How can we have a “democracy”. where “our” leaders have ANY form of immunity?????

***. “Corruption comes by degrees.” [ Juvenal ]

In his first term, Trump pushed 2017 tax cuts for the rich and corporations – which resulted in a 25% national debt increase. Now Trump wants to renew this obscenely anti-democratic and budget-busting act. Somebody, please, explain to me, how does cutting taxes on the rich and KNOWINGLY increasing the national debt do ANYTHING to “..promote the general Welfare..” ????????

Trump says [November 25th] he’ll pardon people convicted of participating in the l/6/21 attack on the U.S. Capitol “within hours of his inauguration.” Somebody, please, explain to me, how this helps “..establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility..” if people can, at will, invade and trash the U.S. Capitol, injure 140 police and cause police deaths, trying to prevent Congress from doing its duty on the 2020 election. Hundreds of INSURRECTIONISTS. have been convicted by “juries of their peer” all over America. What am I missing here. – what does Donald J. Trump “know” that neither i, nor legal scholars, know of the Constitution and Founding Father intent ???????????

If Trump imposes “sweeping tariffs” on all Canadian products, Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s government [12/12/24] said it is considering restricting exports of critical minerals, restricting electricity exports to Michigan, New York, and Minnesota – adding this would make electricity unaffordable for Americans. “If you put a 25% tariff on oil from Alberta that increases every gallon of gasoline by one dollar,” Ford said.
So – how does imposing 25% tariff increases on Canada help to “..promote the general Welfare..” by a president who. repeatedly in his 2024 election campaign promised to cut inflation and reduce costs for Americans??? What does Trump “know’ about economics numerous professors and Nobel Prize winners don’t ?????????

Trump has nominated a well known vaccine skeptic to lead thenDepartment of Health and Human Services. What does RFK, Jr. “know” about vaccines General Washington didn’t know when he ordered his Revolutionary War soldiers to be vaccinated against small pox??? What does RFK, Jr. “know” about vaccines research scientist Jonas Salk didn’t when he developed the polio vaccine in 1953, saving the lives and health of millions of American children???????

How doers Trump’s pick for new FBI Director, who has vowed to fire the agency’s leadership and dramatically reshape its mission “..establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility…promote the general Welfare..” ?????? How does virtually destroying one of the world’s top law enforcement agencies accomplish this??? How does this keep the FBI an independent agency, a non-political agency ??? Does putting a Trump “loyalist” in charge of America’s top law enforcement agency make them Trump’s personal secret police [like Russia, China, Iran, etc.]??? Is America going to return to the Nixon era FBI, where the FBI Director destroys incriminating documents, and lawbreakers like a president who broke federal law taking top secret documents to his private mansion [unsecured!] go unpunished???

***. “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.” [Wendell Phillips}

As far as billionaires cutting $2 trillion from YOUR government’s budget, consider: “The plans for the Department of Government Efficiency laid out by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are so riddled with legal problems hat a law professor in exam season could save a lot of time by using their recent Wall Street Journal op-ed as the fact pattern: All you’d have to do would be to ask students to identify the constitutional flaws.” [Harvard law professor Noah Feldman; l2/8/24; “The Supreme Court won’t save Musk’s DOGE plans”]: “..the piece de resistance is the idea..the president can simply choose not to spend money..Congress has appropriated..This absurd notion violates the basic text of the Constitution…violates a federal statute, the Impoundment Control Act of 1974..violates Supreme Court precedent..”
A “normal,” law-abiding president wouldn’t consider this, BUT – one with “supreme court” blessed “immunity”. [ignoring ordinary people like YOU]. can try this. Especially one who wants to cut taxes on people – like Musk and Ramaswamy and himself, on billionaires who contributed to his election.

*** “WE can either have a democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentration in the hands of a few. But we can’t have both.” [ Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis ]

Tariffs, like the post-1980 Republican tax cuts for the already obscenely rich, shift the cost of American civilization away from billionaires – to. – ordinary people like YOU; blow up the national debt [ from less than $1 trillion in 1980 to about $35 trillion in 2024] – which then can be used by the rich as an excuse for austerity. The choice should now be clear to YOU. – if America doesn’t tax ALL wealth equitably [see Adam Smith on taxing the rich proportionally!!!] [ then things like Social Security and Medicare will HAVE to be cut.

What am I “missing’ here? – this post says Trump II has the potential to destroy American democracy. – because just these here, let alone all other items in the 900-page FAR RIGHT WISH LIST: “Project 2025”. are intended to FINALIZE America’s transformation into a theocratic plutocracy. [. we are ALREADY several steps into this ]

Fellow Americans. – yxou tell me. – reading again the Constitution’s Preamble. – how much, if ANYTHING, in what Trump has already hinted at, said he’d do. – achieves. “..a more perfect Union, establish{es} Justice. insure[s] domestic Tranquility, provide[s] for the common defence [letting the Russians destroy Ukraine], promote[s] the general Welfare..” ?????

It’s ALREADY starting: Trump is WAFFLING. on his many promises to stop inflation and reduce YOUR grocery bills: “From the day I take the oath of office, we’ll rapidly drive down prices and make America affordable again.” [North Carolina speech]. NOW, after YOU elected him to do this, he says it will be “very hard” to do !!!!!!!!!!!!!
BECAUSE – reducing YOUR grocery bills will hurt the millionaires, monopolies, “margins” of Trump’s secret funders and Wall Street expectations
Brace YOURSELF – YOU’RE going to get another 4 years of this. – UNLESS YOU, YOU !!!!! raise holy hell with Republican Congress members, threaten to vote them out in 2026 – and then. DO. IT !!!

Promises made during elections by presidents with lifetime “immunity” against YOU; especially one with a history of 35,XXX known lies, do not uphold what America’s Constitution says, what our Founding Fathers intended. – NOT if America is to remain a “democracy.”

*** “The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” [James Madison, Federalist. #47}
[Trumpism has NOW achieved Madison’s fears – controlling thr House, Senate, president, “supreme court”. – an “immune’ president, a CORRUPT “supreme court” [ perhaps THE most corrupt in American history], hundreds of COMIC BOOK “loyalist” characters in Congress, and appointed into “your” government}

My friends, this message is in your hands because – I greatly fear for America. For some of you, this will be a difficult thing to read. I only ask is that you think on what is being said – mostly not by me
Increasingly, people of good intent are saying things we never would have thought: an increasing number of people are expressing doubts about democracy as a concept, about America as a country. Most important here: WHY? are they saying this?
I offer here some topics for you to think on:
1] Truth – in recent years/decades, the very idea of “truth” has become negotiable. Some insisting there are always, “two sides of the story.” NO, sometimes there aren’t. It is a strategy used by authoritarians: muddy the waters, get people confused. Putin is the master of this. This is “the tobacco defense.” Trump did/does it – the “stolen election” mantra is only what he’d done his entire post-age 10 life.
2] Faith in government – it has been a deliberate strategy for some on the political-economic “right’ to sabotage faith in American government. WHY? Because people of power don’t need government. Former Koch employees have publicly said: Charles Koch wanted to crush government because it was the ONLY thing on earth restraining him. For over 60 years, people like those in the John Birch Society have pushed this. Reagan then made it “respectable” to say government was the problem, not the solution.
3] Changing the rules. This, at bottom, is issue #1. Starting with big corporations around 1970 – the economic right decided they didn’t want to share America’s wealth with their workers. They began to attack and weaken ANY union. They moved jobs to “right to work” states, then Mexico, then S.E. Asia, finally China. Unions lost the ability to strike. The current, greatest force: the CORRUPT McConnell/Roberts “supreme court.” R-W legal groups find ‘perfect test cases,’ then run them up “the conveyor belt” of Mitch McConnell constructed ‘conservative’ courts, to the CORRUPT McConnell/Roberts “supreme court.” Presto! that kangaroo group CHANGES THE RULES.
4] The CORRUPT McConnell/Roberts “court.” If you believe anything other than those 6 “justices” are on that “court” to do anything but CHNAGE THE RULES, you are a lot more trusting, possibly naive, than I think. We have the quotes, confessions, actions, etc. that, since 1968, this IS THE INTENT. Research the major McConnell/Roberts “court’ decisions. the PATTERN is that [before the 3 current religion cases] “religious right” groups have a 90% win rate. The McConnell/Roberts “court” is THE most “business-friendly” “court” since 1945. Roberts came on the “court” with 2 agendas: race and religion. [**** note: this is before Senator Sheldon Whitehouses”s “The Scheme”. about the CORRUPT Roberts “court” was published – it revealed “the Roberts Five” had a 73-0 record on ideological cases!!!]
5]. Economic Inequality – this is a major cancer for America. From 1789-1980, virtually every generation did better than their parents. Since 1970, this has been DELIBERATELY sabotaged. Please read Wilkinson & Pickett”s. “The Spirit Level,” or Joe Stiglitz” “The Price of Inequality” [Nobel Prize winner], or Pulitzer Prize winner David Cay Johnston’s “Divided. The Perils of Our Growing Inequality.” OR – you can research pre- and post-1980 [unspun] IRS income stats. ANY economy in which a high school grad can not thrive, support their family, is IMMORAL.
6]. The internet. – If I had my way, humans would NEVER think of this concept. I understand most of you are on it, for “normal” activities, of pleasure and business. YOU are NOT the problem The idealistic goals of internet creators have been shattered by the criminal use of it. The I-net is now used by organized crime gangs, by terrorists, by racists, by scam artists. they are undermining the basic concepts of law and order, of honesty in business, of simple human decency, of democratic government. The I-net is ruled by rumors, deliberate lies, monstrous falsehoods, etc. – all sabotaging human civilization. [*** note; this ignored the use if the I-net for political purposes – mainly the spreading of BIG lies, debunked rumors, etc – the 2024 election was DETERMINED by I-net falsehoods & blatant lies]
7] The South – is and always has been – a cancer on America. It has NEVER outlived the use of slavery, then KKK and Jim Crow, now discrimination. think on this: from 1830-1860, 300 WHITES were lynched in the South, others “run out of town” [literally], tarred & feathered – because – they made the mistake of not supporting slavery. this anti-Black discrimination also covered “poor white trash” and now ALL who live there. the South is THE most backward region – health-wise, education-wise, economically [see “The Spirit Level”]. The South now has outsized influence on ALL American culture and politics – largely negative [see recent Texas, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida laws].
[*** 176 Electoral College votes of Trump’s 300 plus came from the old 1861-65 Confederacy; the South is the center of anti-abortion laws and other “Christian Nationalist” cultural laws***]
8] World War II – and – China. America was on the winning side of WW II because of British courage, 27 million dead Russians, and the American economy buried the Nazis and Japanese on tidal waves of equipment. America won the Cold War because the Russians couldn’t keep up with the American economy. We can’t fight the Chinese – they have our industry. The Chinese broke an international treaty of 50 years in half that time in Hong Kong – the response of American industry was to ignore that – BIG MESSAGE to the world. If then, they had done what they’re doing in Russia, maybe…. But – the GREED of the top 1% owned “American” corporations is such they couldn’t/won’t – too many profits. American jobs are in china so “American” corporations can dodge taxes, regulations, living wages for American workers – we have the quotes, confessions, etc. by the perps.
9]. Housing – is a symbol of what hedge fund-private equity-secret anonymous shell companies have done to ordinary Americans. They are. IMMORAL. They’ll do. ANYTHING. to make a profit – and have done it. Now, multiple stories and sources are reporting on this. The latest is today’s Minneapolis Star-Tribune story on real people in Duluth fighting against these funds of “investors’ buying up housing there for “vacation rentals.” A real estate agent told me that in some Minneapolis neighborhoods – 50% – of the housing was owned by these groups. A recent PBS, and also CBS, stories – discussed how “investors” have been buying up housing from Calif – to – the Atlantic in the southern half of the USA – then jacking up the cost of housing. You’ll be reading more stories like this. If. EVERYTHING. is “commodified” – for sale – what of America is left?
10] Guns. Research what the Founders INTENDED: Articles of Confederation, Article VI [“..every state shall always kep a well regulated & disciplined militia..”]; Madison’s original – 3 part – draft for the Second Amendment – pay special attention to the 3rd phrase [..’but no person religiously scrupulous of bearing arms shall be compelled to render military service.”]; the Senate changed Madison’s word order – so “A well-regulated militia..” came FIRST; the 1792 [May 3 & 8] Militia Acts [read it ALL: the DUTY of 18-45 white males, military ranks, care for the wounded & disabled].
The 2nd Amendment, and all others, was passed on December 15, 1791 – the 1791 Militia Acts were passed within 5 months. Do you think, just maybe, these two were connected? Check the rules of grammar – since when does one get the full meaning of a sentence [2nd Amendment] by reading half of it???
There were at least 5 Supreme Court rulings, 1789 – 1939, that the 2nd Amendment was to protect citizens having guns for MILITARY reasons, so the 48 states would have their own military forces – as a political measure.

Most of you are over age 50. You’ve been around enough. America, 2022, is not what America was earlier, especially if you lived 1947-1973. that innocence is gone. That faith in “the system” has been sabotaged. SO – WHO are the winners?

For some of you this will be difficult – for the first time in American 1789 – history, we have a major political party that is – steadily, especially since 1980, sliding towards many un-democratic thoughts and actions. For the first time in American 1789 – history, we have a major political party that is all but owned by two groups: its billionaire donors and its religious voters.
People within this party have publicly confessed: what were formerly “fringe” ideas are now driving this party’s discussions and policies. Research the “14 characteristics of fascism” – how many, honestly, o YOU see as here or beginning to creep into American talks and policies? – Be honest – what do the facts – what exists – tell you?
WHY did some “American” conservatives” recently go to Hungary for their annual convo? WHO else was there? Why have some praised Hungary’s dictator? Why have some praised Putin? Why do some praise Putin a s an example of “Christian faith? [***note: can you conceive of Americans praising Joe Stalin ???]
If you examine laws passed in regressive states – mostly the South – what PATTERNS jump out to you? Who are the “winners” and “losers” of those laws? How do these laws measure up to basic American principles expressed in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution’s Preamble, let alone things said by the Founders, Lincoln, Supreme Court giants?
There is NO joy in this letter. Recent events have revealed a very dark side of this blessed nation. America is no longer the heirs of the Founders – Scandinavia is, Canada is.
I greatly fear for my children and granddaughters. Please think on what I’ve said; think if it is time for good people like you to act, to speak out.


So – here we are, it is Tuesday, November 26, 2024 – little, if anything worried about or discussed above has changed – in fact, much of it has gotten worse. The 2024 election had much hatred, lies, fear, misinformation, racism, misogyny either blatantly said – or unspoken, but in people’s minds.
Democracy is fragile – we are now, in 2024-2029, about to find out exactly how. We are going to find out if the American people are willing to fight to keep the democratic gains of 1900 forward – or meekly let them be taken away. We are going to find out if “divide and conquer” will work. We are going to find out if America is a “democracy” – or, if the Right Wing goal of a plutocratic theocracy has now been achieved.
We are already disgraced – we have elected THE anti-George Washington president – in spite of his own voters admitting he IS a despicable person, but they think he’ll “make America great again’ – against all evidence from his first term , and his 2021 rhetoric and actions
“Our” government is now in the hands of people who don’t believe in it – indeed, apparently, they intend to weaken or destroy it – if you haven’t, find critical analysis of “PROJECT 2025 – the blueprint of a Right-Wing think tank – on how the new Trump administration can do this, or “as some are saying’ the “Mein Kampf of what the Right Wing wants to do TO America.
Time is getting short. You may want to think if 2024 is the last REAL election.”