AMERICAN POLITICS: Canvassing for 2020 votes?

America is in a tough fight for her democratic principles. This has never been so earnest, than, from the experience of the past three and half years' Republican Party Administration. A nation built on the principle of one-man-one vote and the equality of men, finds herself screaming to breathe for air, under the choke hold or knees of a president, who is probably belligerent or narcissistic, completely out of touch with realities of this moment. Americans, young and old, are dying daily in thousands, and her President, declared: "it is, what it is!” Under other circumstances and time, had the President been a military general in a war, he would have been court-martial, found guilty of dereliction of duty, and shot at post! Under a specialized court-martial, an equivalence in civilian life, Donald Trump, who identified himself as a war time President, would have faced real federal conviction, of failing to act decisively in a position of authority, resulting in the deaths of American Citizens. In civilian jurisdictional equivalence or parlance, the punishment for dropping the ball in this pandemic for Mr. Trump, would have been a minimum of one year's confinement or imprisonment; and, a bad conduct discharge.

2020 Democratic National Convention began yesterday and four favorite speakers, among others, Michelle Obama, Bernie Sanders, Andrew Cuomo and John Kasich, advanced the argument for the summary discharge of the current  Republican Administration. Whether the clarion call to oust Donald Trump on November 3, 2020 is a left on deft ears of the American voters, is a subject worth a debate or exploration. For the DNC Convention Speakers and critics, Donald Trump has committed, not a treasonable felony, as might be deduced from Director Mueller's Report of Russian Intervention of the 2016 general election, but his divisiveness, flagrant disregard for protocols, institutions and poor performance in failing to get ahead of the ravages of the pandemic. Alarmingly, his response and lackadaisical attitude, with the assertion: "it is what it is", on a day when the highest number of Americans succumbed to the cold hands of death from the pandemic, is an assertion for the history books. This war-time civilian general, a self-described genius, has failed woefully, and it is time for reckoning. Hear Mrs. Obama in short: "Donald Trump is the wrong president for our country. He has had more than enough time to prove that he can do the job, but he is clearly over his head. He cannot meet this moment. He simply cannot be who we need him to be for us". Contemplate in a nutshell what Senator Bernie Sander articulated in his speech, yesterday: “We are facing the worst public health crisis in 100 years and the worst economic collapse since the Great Depression. We are confronting systemic racism and the enormous threat to our planet of climate change. And in the midst of all of this, we have a president who is not only incapable of addressing these crises but is leading us down the path of authoritarianism.” Both assessments are not only scatting, they completely obliterate any suggestion for another four-year term by the custodian of the current White House oval office. 

Two governors, One Democratic, the other former Republican, have some few choice words for the occupier of the White House oval office. New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo insists: 1) “Our nation is in crisis, and in many ways, covid is just a metaphor;” 2) “A virus attacks when the body is weak and when it cannot defend itself. Over these past few years, America’s body politic has been weakened.” Ohio Governor John Kasich (Formally Republican) chimed in: 1) Donald Trump has taken the nation to a path that’s led to division, dysfunction, irresponsibility and growing vitriol between our citizens;" 2) Continuing to follow that path will have terrible consequences for America’s soul because we’re being taken down the wrong road by a president who has pitted one against the other.” Cuomo and Kasich are clear in their assessments of Mr. Trump’s stewardship of the White oval office. To ignore their assessments of the situation in which America finds herself, is to ignore the obvious.

I will daily bring you, my personal assessment of each speaker's position during the DNC and RNC conventions. My efforts here, are designed to contribute to the great debate of nation building, and the challenges of a mature and probably, transitioning democracy. Ours is not to be judgmental but to call the ball as we see it. At a time of ideological war of conscience, with the current President of the United States, casting aspersions on elections and electioneering process, saying in effect, the following among others: 1) “Universal is going to be a disaster, the likes of which our country has never seen;” 2) “It will end up being a rigged election or they will never come out with an outcome. They’ll have to do it again, and nobody wants that, and I don’t want that.” One may want to know, whose interest is being served by this type of rhetoric close to another general election. Please, come along with me, as we reconcile our differences; and, or, ideological family feuds.