Toning It Down, Getting On Board

THE PEOPLE WHO RECEIVED BOMBS in the mail appear to be a who's who list of all the people that president Trump despises, and has spent the last couple of years vilifying. Hillary, Obama, and a few others. Also CNN got their bomb in the mail, the network which Trump has repeatedly accused of propagating "fake news". The bomb sending pattern clearly indicates a person behind it who is loyal and faithful to Trump, and believes every hateful word our hate spewing president utters. Trump either realized this, or, much more likely, somebody shoved the facts in his face hard enough that the message got through; his hateful angry words can cause others to become hateful, angry, and deadly dangerous, even to the point of attempted murder. The President's comments regarding the necessity of civility are to be commended; he said and did the right thing, for once. Now, if only he would start living up to his own words, start practicing what he preaches. Trump has emotional problems, it is obvious from his behavior. There has been, since he began running for president, far too much anger and hatred from him. When he first announced his candidacy, I was excited, wanting some new political blood. But I soon grew tired of his rhetoric, and I still am. I turned from a Trump supporter, if only for a couple of weeks, into a resister, one of millions who believes the best remedy is to vote Trump and Trumpism out of the White House, out of Congress, out of politics. There is a relatively new organization, called "Vote Common Good", which is Christian in its orientation, and made up largely of evangelicals who have become disenchanted at the evangelical support for a man as un Christian as Trump, and his agenda. Their purpose seems to be to vote the Republicans out of office, although they do not identify as hard core, fire breathing democrats or liberals, not at all. This group is willing to point out the obvious, the white elephant standing in the room; that Trump and the Republican party agenda have nothing in common with Christian values, values such as helping the poor, welcoming the stranger, and being good caretakers of God's Earth. Its like Vote Common Good is trying to embrace progressive values, without declaring themselves progressive. And that is exactly what America needs; an awareness on the part of the Christian community that the teachings of Jesus are progressive; sharing wealth, renouncing war and conflict, helping each other, not tariffs, trade wars, and tax cuts for the rich. Welcome aboard, evangelicals.