When I was a little girl, I would lie in the sunlight on the green rug in my living room and read the newspaper every day. As I read the newspaper, I would notice the Vietnam War death toll. That made me very sad, and I wondered why people had to fight and kill each other. I also thought a lot about the Holocaust. Moved by the story of Anne Frank and other articles and stories about Hitler and that devastating, hateful, deadly event, I wondered why people stayed quiet and didn't act against Hitler sooner--why did they let the carnage happen? That troubled me greatly as a little girl and it still troubles me today.
I was willing to give Trump a chance when he was first elected even though I didn't vote for him. His inauguration speech in 2017 was okay, but then when I watched him obsess about his inaugural numbers and lie as he stood in front of the wall at the CIA that honors the unnamed people who lost their lives as they did our country's work, I knew we were in for trouble. That day he virtually ignored the public servants in front of him and the wall that marked the sacrfice of so many, and instead perseverated about himself and told many lies.
It was downhill from there as Trump skirted and broke laws to prop up his personal wealth, power, pleasure, and privilege time and again. He forwarded his sick military fantasy in all that he did, likely a fantasy born out of his emotionally bereft, bad-boy childhood, years at a military academy, and seemingly fraudulent efforts to avoid the draft. Trump clearly was in it to serve himself, a few family members and cronies, and few to no others. As time when on, it became certain that Trump didn't care if most of us lived or died--he is a cold, heartless, sociopath that is a danger to good people everywhere.
I am passionate about this impeachment trial because I know that the trial and results will forever impact the United States of America. If we give Trump a pass for his deadly abuse of power we greenlight more terror, hate, divide, bigotry, and violence, but if Senators rightly convict Trump, they will send a strong message to elected officials everywhere that fidelity to their oaths of office and our United States Constitution, the law of the land, matters.
Senators who vote to convict Trump, especially those White male Republican senators, have a chance to turn the tide against long held White supremacy in the United States, the kind of White Supremacy that has protected privileged White males like Trump for far too long in our country. To convict Trump will send a clear message that just because you're a privileged White male, you don't get a free pass when it comes to lawlessly using and abusing the American people, our public spaces, our hard earned tax dollars, and our good government. Trump, not unlike unjust, evil White men in the past, incited an insurrection that resulted in the death, injury, and terror of Americans--he chose violence rather than peaceful, lawful means to express himself and forward his ideals. Trump clearly abused his power and acted with infidelity to his oath of office. He should be convicted--it is the right thing to do. To convict Trump is to better serve and empower all Americans to do what is right and good to save and enrich lives and good living rather than endanger and end lives and good living. Please contact your senators and tell them to do what is right and good. Convict Trump.