The 2024 presidential election revealed one thing in crystal-clear, proof-positive, light-years-beyond-any-reasonable-doubt comprehensibility: that the ability and capacity of the average American voter to simply (but so importantly) distinguish between fact and fiction; the ability to grasp (and choose confidently) between truth and falsehood; the aptitude necessary to seek out and determine right from wrong; to diligently and with purpose contrast good and evil; and lastly, the ability and the practiced competence to differentiate and choose the honorable from the dishonorable – no longer exists.
There is a reason why the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (Retired General Mark Milley) called Trump “the most dangerous person in the country.” There is a reason why 741 former generals, admirals, senior NCOs and national security experts from all parts of the political spectrum signed a letter warning America and American allies of the risks to our own national security and the peril a second Trump presidency would likely unleash on other democracies world-wide.
Never in our history (certainly not in my lifetime and I go back as far as FDR [Franklin D. Roosevelt and WWII) have so many men and women crossed these lines to warn the world of fierce storm clouds on the horizon. To turn a deaf ear that our allies (and democracies around the globe) are not presently severely endangered, and to not continue to shout from the rooftops this warning, would be a colossal transgression on our part.
David L. Snell, Franklin