And I think you know that you have made the choice that will be spit on by your grandchildren and by history...

There is a systematic dismantling of our democracy and our justice system by one political party, and one party only.

You have made the choices you have because its more comforting, easier, to simply adopt the role of cynic and proclaim "Both sides are corrupt!" - when the alternative is to admit the truth in front of you- the fact that the party you have consistently aligned yourself with is using every means possible to make sure the last election we had is the LAST election we have.

I do not seek 'followers' here, Dan- I do not write these musings and rants to convince or convert you, nor do I hope to rally those that agree with me. I don't say these things because I feel it will somehow lessen the very grave harm and injury being inflicted on innocents by this administration.

Is it for posterity? A way to record that some of us saw the tragedy approaching and tried to sound the alarm long before trump?
That's a cute thought... but really I suspect all the millions of keystrokes recorded on this platform will, in 30 years time, have long since succumbed to entropy... at best they will be only preserved on a obsolete thumb-drive at the bottom of a forgotten cardboard box.

I think my goal is more immediate than that, and far less lofty and noble.

I write these things to let you, and those like you, know that some of us see through your carefully constructed self deception- we know you, at some point, made a conscious- or at least semi-conscious - decision to choose the fiction over the facts. You surrendered to lies when you realized that admitting the truth would admitting that you had been a fool... and with that act of cowardice you condemned us all- innocent and guilty alike.

I write because I know there will come a time, far too late for it to make difference to anything other than your conscience, when things have gone far too far for even you to stomach- you will look at what you helped breathe into being with years of propagandizing, followed by years of cynical apathy - and in that moment you will maybe- just maybe- remember you were warned.

You will no doubt vehemently deny this, and rail against my conceit for claiming I know whats in your heart- as you have over and over, over the years. Or perhaps you will dismiss all this as the hyperbolic, over-the-top, melodramatic rantings of some egotistical elitist liberal... 8^)

And yet...you feel it necessary to again and again try to convince us of the honesty of your self-contradicting fiction you have created to console yourself.

That is how I know that at least part of you suspects, or at least fears, that I am right.

Good night Dan... you will find some comfort in the darkness, I am sure... but in the end you will remember those that raged against the dying of the light... perhaps not fondly, but you will know they were in the right.