This is indeed an international distress signal to all human beings who love America.  Since the Women’s March in January, I have joined the resistance movement against President Tweet because I am deeply concerned about the direction of the United States.  Who among us can simply go about our daily business and accept the bombastic, unconstitutional, and selfish acts by this administration?  I can’t.

Despite my liberal point of view, my perspective is not Democratic or Republican.  The President’s role in government should be about doing what’s right.  It should be about respecting truth, the rule of law, and the media.  It should be about global leadership.  It should about being a role model to our youth and to our allies.  It should be about compromise and seeking common ground.  Since the election, all anyone can talk about or post on Facebook is the latest alternative fact from Tweet’s administration and his latest flip of his middle finger to the American public.  Yes, I’m distressed and so are millions of Americans.  Haven’t you had enough?  So, what can we do about it?

Our Founding Fathers built into the Constitution a lifeline against demagogues like President Tweet.  We can be saved through voting for the politicians who abhor what is happening right now in Washington, DC.  The most important date on every American’s calendar should be November 6, 2018.   That’s the date 33 Senate seats, all 435 seats in the House of Representatives, and 14 Governorships will be up for re-election.  We, the people, need to speak with our VOTES.  If you’re as distressed as I am, not voting is no longer an acceptable option because our freedom will perish from the earth.   According to the Constitution, the House must start impeachment proceedings and the Senate convicts.  So, unless, we vote out the current Republicans who support President Tweet, we have 3 years and 8 months or more of this disaster.

The majority of Americans can see exactly what President Tweet is doing.  Every false word, every signature, every hate filled rally, every golf outing, is used only to pander to his base, to feed his narcissism and to make himself richer.  When has he ever tried to build consensus and compromise and save those things all Americans hold dear like health care, the environment, good schools, and a strong economy.

There are people suffering no doubt but to those Tweet supporters who thought their rescue boat had arrived, it has sailed right on past you.  Storm clouds are gathering and America’s future is looking bleaker for you unless the tide turns in 2018.  If you’re drowning, do you really think Tweet’s going to save anyone but his own ass?  I urge you to no longer be misled.

America’s lifeline is going to have to be thrown by someone other than Tweet.  We need leaders in Congress, at the state level, and a President who is truly going to live up to the lofty ideals of our Founding Fathers.  In a July 2015 article from Forbes magazine, Paul Laudicina poses the following questions:  What is our vision for the future? How are we setting a course for a better tomorrow, the way the nation’s founders did? What is the strategic narrative around which all Americans can rally as one nation?  I don’t think President Tweet has any idea how to answer any of those questions.

We need a leader who can inspire the dreams of a better future, not nuclear war with North Korea.  I hope we will find that person in 2020.  In the meantime, let’s cling to hope there is a beacon of light coming in 2018 and that through voting for politicians who oppose tyranny, we can all be saved.

#resist and I stand #indivisible