Killing the Country Through Incompetence

FOR NEARLY SIX MONTHS the virus has spread out of control in the United States. Long ago the president said that it would vanish with the arrival of warm weather. In late March he advocated returning to normal social and economic activity by Easter. The president encouraged people to consume disinfectants and anti-malarial drugs, many did, with unfortunate consequences. From the beginning the president refused to wear a mask, refused to encouraged social distancing, and treated the epidemic dismissively. He still refuses to take a leadership role in providing and implementing a comprehensive national plan to control and mitigate the epidemic. He downplays the impact of the virus on children, while all across America children sicken and die. it is unreasonable to describe the president's response to the epidemic as anything other than criminal, and the crime is mass murder, genocide, nothing less. This crime is sufficiently serious to warrant the president's indictment, trial, conviction, removal from office, and incarceration. When the leader of a country fails to take the necessary action to prevent the deaths of hundreds of thousands of its citizens, the leader is a criminal, and the crime is mass murder. Equally distressing is that not only President Trump, but the roughly forty percent of the American people who continue to support him deny this stark reality, instead choosing to deceive themselves into believing that the president's behavior during this catastrophic epidemic has been satisfactory. These are teh people who spread disease and death by following the president's example and refusing to wear masks, refusing to take the epidemic seriously gathering together in churches and public places. these are the people who defy common sense and science in service to their twisted political agendas. It all adds up. People who support criminal national leadership behave like criminals.