I would like to cover more than the destruction of a presidency on my website, but I cannot think of anything more important than what is taking place in our republic right now. A president who wants to turn the executive branch into a campaign organ on a level that is unprecedented in our history is big news. We have a large percentage of students who do not see a problem with a president who invites foreign nations to help him get re-elected (and maybe elected in the first place?). The republic actually being a republic is at stake; is this a country belonging to the citizens or someone else? The Supreme Court in the Citizens United case invited the wealthy and powerful to secretly participate in an outsized way in our elections. Who is to say that those wealthy and powerful persons who are secretly participating are actually citizens of the United States? Thanks Supreme Court for your limited wisdom.

Many of us have been guilty of desiring things that we are not able to handle. The current president ran for the office and no one bothered to tell him that lying, corruption, and criminal behavior would get him into trouble. In fact many of our so-called leaders were busily trying to make everything appear okay when they were incredibly wrong. We are now in a situation where our identity as Americans is under assault by our own behaviors as a country. Our executive branch has become a den of thieves, our judicial branch seems to be political pawns, and our legislative branch debates whether lies are true. The American people seem to be showing that they don’t buy lies all of the time, and are ready to confront proven criminality. I am hopeful that the cunning, corrupt, ignorant, and even treasonous persons in positions of power and trust are concerned about their futures.

The Attorney General of the United States even being suspected of involvement in behavior that undermines the constitution is shocking and frightening. The current president has put the United States into a tailspin that has citizens learning to distrust every institution that holds the country together. He tells us to not trust the media, our intelligence agencies, former administrations to name a few. He tells lies so much that intelligent people assume if he is speaking he is lying. I am hopeful that more and more Americans recognize that the problem centers around one man, and not all of our institutions. There is a fix for the massive symptom of a societal problem in the White House; impeachment first, and new laws to strengthen our republic later.