Maybe you agree with some or all of the blizzard of nominations, executive actions, directives and remarks from the new administration.
That’s how it works here in the U.S.: We have our different opinions and are free to try to advance them.
But, I don’t think this is the usual partisan divide in which, behind our differences, we are united in allegiance to our Constitution and our common credo “liberty and justice for all.”
Most Republicans, Democrats and independents share the hope of generations of Americans to be a city on the hill to the rest of the world. And, the Statue of Liberty, welcoming the tired, the poor, those yearning to breathe free, and protecting them, wherever possible, at home and abroad, is an icon for us all because she represents all our stories and aspirations for a better life.
It feels to me like we’re all being snowed by a very deliberate and strategic attempt to distract and divide us. Bannon and company are throwing “bread and circuses” while quickly dismantling rights, the rule of law, safety nets, environmental protection and international cooperation.
Theodore Roosevelt said, “Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.”
Abraham Lincoln said, we can “nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.”
It’s up to “we the people.”
Anne Bonaparte-Krogh
Concord