It should come as no surprise when I tell you that Donald Trump denies the greatest danger to the world, environmental destruction. He is a member of the one-percent, and an enemy to our planet and its people. His denouncement of the EPA and other organizations designed to protect our air, water, and land gives us another reason to defeat his plan to live in the White House.
“I think the federal government should get out of the way,” Trump said in what was billed as a major energy address. “We have so much potential energy people wouldn’t even believe it.”
He also voiced support for the owners of the coal industry. Their safety violations and pollution of water and land is unprecedented.
“We’re going to save that coal industry, believe me,” he said. “I love those people.”
How can any intelligent or patriotic American consider Trump as our president? He joins the only group in the developed world which denies climate change caused by man. Instead of supporting new energy methods and thousands of new jobs, he would continue increased fracking and the mining of coal. He would destroy our economy, forcing it into a depression. Trump would be a more divisive president that George W. Bush, and our nation would no longer be the ’United’ States of America.
Racism and bigotry would flourish in Trump’s America. The weakness of emotions would destroy intellect and common sense forever. Trump would become America’s first dictator; failing to seek and accept the advice of those who are far more informed than he.
At the end of Trump’s first term climate change would be irreversible. He would be the force predicted by Abraham Lincoln.
“At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.”–January 27, 1838 Lyceum Address
His words in 1838 are more true today than ever in our history. No nation can destroy America; only one who claims to be an American can lead us into destruction.
If you support Donald Trump, you do not believe in America. He is not concerned about ‘making America great again,’ his ambition is power and fame.
These are serious times. Experience and ideas must be the criteria for selecting our nation’s leader.
I continually hear that Hillary Clinton is not ‘likeable,’ and that she cannot be trusted. I admit that she’s not perfect, but compare her qualifications and proposals for the American people with those of Trump. There are none. While she has offered solutions for all of our nation’s ills, he has only offered hyperbole; he has no solutions, because he has no ability to govern.
What President Obama has begun must not be halted or destroyed.
Ronald Reagan once asked a serious question: “Are you better off than you were four years ago?” If you are honest, you must admit that the answer is a resounding yes. What has begun must continue.
Op-Ed
By James Turnage
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