We have been lucky up until now, but our time is up. Now we will learn what it means to have a dangerously incompetent person in the White House. We will learn that a person who only cares about his re-election has grossly mishandled our government. We will learn that he views our health and welfare only as a drag on the stock market, which threatens his re-election. We will see that if any of the negative blow-back hits him, he will blame it on multiple people and dream up more new conspiracy theories. He will blame his failure and lack of leadership on anyone near him. Mike Pence should be nervous.
We will hear him continue to say the global pandemic threatening us is “going to disappear.” We will learn that, because of the constant lies he tells, the exaggerations of his greatness and achievements, his word is absolutely worthless.
We will learn how the hollowing-out of the government has put us at great risk, how dissolving the department that oversees global health concerns was a stupid idea, how not funding and staffing the CDC and NIH was a really stupid idea, how not letting the doctors and scientists communicate with the nation is a really stupid idea.
The corona virus is highly contagious. It has crossed international borders. It has no vaccination. When Ebola and H1N1 threatened the world’s population, we had competent adults in charge of our government. We don’t have that now.
We’ve been lucky over these last three years when Trump’s mistakes have not had global, tragic consequences. That time is over. We’ve all probably wondered what would happen if a real catastrophe occurred under his watch, and now we’ll find out. It will not be a good outcome.
If this level of danger is more than you want for the next four years, vote Democratic in November.
Mary Ellen Hardy
Everett
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