It was so easy to be brought down to the level of our enemies.

It will be much more difficult to rise ourselves to American again.

But the first step is to stop Trump and his new autocratic Republican Party.

Or America may indeed be lost.
ST

"A thimble of love drowns an ocean of hate."
SearingTruth

"Our times are indeed dire, and foretold, and unfortunately there is little we can do to forestall the immediate crisis that confronts us.

However, we find ourselves at this moment in history for very simple reasons.

As I have said before, I am not religious. And yet I have found justice, compassion, and wisdom in the thoughts and writings of many historical religious, philosophical, and political figures.

And one of the saddest realities we face today is that so many of these wise men and women have already delivered most all the answers we seek.

Peace. Justice. Humility. Compassion. The willingness to stand for good when all others stand against it.

These are not new answers my friends, but among the oldest recorded. And when we abandon our most precious treasures of wisdom, we will suffer their warning.

But hope can never be lost. And there are times when suffering gives way to new understanding, and new opportunities to right the wrongs of the past, and boldly forge a more just and prosperous future for all.

I cannot help but hope that this is one of those times.

May the light of compassion always bless our great nation."
SearingTruth

"After a time it becomes like this my friends.

Even happiness is somehow just small joy, as little hauntings appear to one side or the other, or at times all around.

The power of evil lay not in its stature, but its persistence. And its ability to dampen every joy with uncertainty and an almost unconscious dread.

Until withdrawal our lilting pose, with blindness the gaze.

People of the past did not fall because they were less than we are.

They fell because they were exactly as we are."
SearingTruth

We did this to ourselves fellow citizens.

Trump wields the power he has today because after 9/11 we were terrified.

And surrendered all of our principles at once.
ST

"The torture and murder of the unknown in secret prisons after 9/11.

That's when America set horror free."
SearingTruth

"If the dinosaurs saw the comet coming, would they have saved each other?

Or continued their fight to death?"
SearingTruth