The End Of An Era, And The Beginning Of A Dangerous Challenge To Our Nation, Its Past And Its Future!

I am writing this entry on the evening of January 19. In about 15 hours Donald Trump will be inaugurated President of the United States.

We are ending the Obama era, a great period of accomplishment, in about 15 hours, and it feels like a funeral scene.

The only good thing is that both Barack Obama and Joe Biden are alive and will fight along with all of us who are progressives, against the dangerous challenge to our nation, presented by Donald Trump and Fascism!

I will do my part in this struggle, and appreciate my readers and contributors who are there with me over the next few years.

We must be optimistic that the future will work out, although there will be harm to many, particularly those who are sick, weak, poor, gay, and of minority religious, racial, or ethnic heritage.

United we will triumph, and we have overcome the Civil War, the Great Depression and World War II, and the Richard Nixon Watergate Crisis, and Donald Trump will fail in his mission to destroy the New Deal of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Great Society of Lyndon B. Johnson, and the Obama legacy!

I will not post tomorrow, a rare exception, and will not watch or listen to the inauguration, and instead go to the movies with my younger son, but I will, of course, learn what has happened, and comment on it starting on Saturday, January 21.

So, everyone, be confident, as the progressive battle, going on since Theodore Roosevelt, Robert La Follette Sr. and George Norris 116 years ago, will continue and prosper!

8 comments on “The End Of An Era, And The Beginning Of A Dangerous Challenge To Our Nation, Its Past And Its Future!

  1. Southern Liberal January 20, 2017 5:00 pm

    I listened to the stream of his inaugural address on my computer. Sounded just like the speech he gave at the Republican Convention in which he invented a dystopian America.

  2. Rational Lefty January 20, 2017 5:02 pm

    I’m trying to be optimistic, but man it’s getting harder and harder.

  3. Pragmatic Progressive January 20, 2017 8:15 pm

    Trump’s attack on PBS is a predictable outcome that should serve to remind every American who argued that both Clinton and Trump were the same that elections have consequences.

  4. Rustbelt Democrat January 20, 2017 8:38 pm

    Whitehouse.gov will now have Melania’s jewelry and fashion line for sale.

  5. Paul Doyle January 22, 2017 6:29 pm

    Rustbelt, Ivanka will be her agent. Shhhh, don,’t tell the President.

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