What happened at the White House on Friday should chill the spine of every decent American.
American and the world watched as the President and Vice President of the United States publicly berated one of our allies, an ally who is desperately fighting to keep his country free of tyranny.
There aren’t enough words to express the contempt deserving to the president, vice president, the Secretary of State, and everyone who played a part in that shameful display of Russian capitulation.
For eighty years, America has been the dominant world power.
The president has erased all good will achieved during that time.
We are no longer a force for good.
We are a danger and a menace to freedom-loving, peace loving people everywhere.
The will of the majority of Americans is being circumvented by duplicity, cowardice, and greed.
We are being led by a puppet president who is controlled by oligarchs, including the richest man in the world who is enhancing his wealth by looting and pillaging from our government as he destroys the infrastructure created to serve nonbillionaires.
We are officially a Russian satellite, doing the bidding of Vladimir Putin at the expense of our national interests, and the best interests of the free world.
This is the time for every American to speak up and out.
This is the time for every American politician who has moral courage and an ethical backbone to reject foreign policy forged by xenophobic maniacs.
This is the time for every spiritual leader in the US not part of the Christian Nationalist movement to speak out against the attempt to frame the government’s actions as consistent with Christian theology.
This is the time for every political and social organization that opposes these actions to agitate, march, and protest.
We must change our nation’s current course.
Not because of our now-sullied reputation, not because of appearances and perceptions, but to stave off clear and present danger.
We must change course for the sake of freedom in Ukraine and the rest of the world.
We must change course for the sake of the American poor and the middle class.
We must change course for the sake of American People of Color.
We must change course for the sake of American LGBTQIA+ people.
We must change course for the sake of American women.
We must change course for the preservation of our republic, and for the renewal of a freer, more civilized world order.