Sorry But I have to ask....? Is Milly for real or just an agitator?
Despite my lack of experience as an actual agitator, I'm just gonna stick my neck out and suggest that, were Milly "just an agitator," she'd be unlikely to identify herself as such.
These are difficult questions and difficult times and to assert that this was "just another election" reveals a painful lack of awareness of what has just transpired, or worse, an embracing of all that Trump represents. Would a President Trump EVER in a million years gracefully and kindly shake the hand of a man who had questioned his citizenship and therefore the legitimacy of his presidency, years and years beyond the time that it could have possibly been a legitimate question, leaving only racism and self-promotion as his motivators? Yet, this is what President Obama did yesterday. Remember that Trump's favorite bible verse, according to him, is "an eye for an eye."
Read the newspaper. There is now clear and convincing evidence that Putin intentionally intervened in this election on Trump's behalf AND there was ongoing communication between Putin and many members of Trump's campaign staff. Add that on top of the blatant influence by the Director of the FBI, Comey, and you have a president who won election by showing us all how to treat women, minorities, and immigrants, reaching out to white nationalists, and when that was not enough, he benefited from the services of a foreign power and a presumably independent domestic law enforcement agency. This ought to frighten each one of us, regardless of political affiliation and regardless of whether we think Milly is just an agitator.
There is a new commander in chief who has said repeatedly that women do not belong in the military and if they choose that occupation, they should expect to be sexually harassed. A betting person would have to bet in favor of a lessening of the role of women in the military, at a minimum.
He asserted forcefully, repeatedly, that HIS military WILL torture.
While he ran on "draining the swamp" and opposed to lobbyists, BOTH are running his transition and headed to major leadership roles in his new administration. Guiliani has explained that the new president will need no congressional action to start building that wall - oh but did you know that net-migration with Mexico is actually negative....more leaving than entering? Wouldn't that wall be counterproductive in that case? And which one of us wants our son/child guarding that wall, shooting at anyone who breaches it?
Our democracy and our constitution are both fragile - it is too easy to say that our children, should they enter the USNA in service to our country, are pledging loyalty to the constitution not the president. Four years from now, our constitution and our democracy will look very different than it does now.
"Just an agitator?" Sigh. Sadly, much less. Just a concerned mom.
