the lies coming from our highest elected official never stop coming. not one word he utters is believable, and his inability to tell the truth has destroyed our trust in institutions that we rely to keep us safe. we know that his appointees are pressuring the leaders of the centers for disease control and prevention to feed us information that is consistent with what mr. trump is sayng and in some cases, the cdc has complied. we know that the president lied to the world in the initial stages of the outbreak the usa. he continues to lie, telling us that we have turned a corner on the infection rate while the data tells us otherwise. the one person that we trust to give us honest information, dr. anthony fauci, continues to tell us the truth, though he, too, is being pressured to toe the president's line. fortunately for us, dr. fauci has the integrity to resist and continues to give us good advice, even when it is not what we wish to hear. we cannot stop the spread of this insidious virus unless we know the truth about it. pie in the sky notions about covid-19 won't help us, because they give us false hope and encourage us to abandon safe practices. what mr. trump and his minions are doing is killing people, and they must be stopped.
with the republican majority in the senate helping him, trump has planted his people throughout the various branches of government. he has effectively taken over control over our intelligence services, particularly the central intelligence agency and the department of homeland security. if we had a president who believed that hearing honest assessments of what foreign governments are doing is important to our national security, it would be a good thing for that president to have his own appointees at the helm of the intelligence apparatus. we do not have such a president and those who run the cia now hide the truth from the congress and downplay evidence that is harmful to trump's political future. at the dhs, we have leaders who are more concerned with doing trump's will than in viewing those seeking asylum here as fellow human beings. they treat children with unbelievable cruelty, ripping them from the arms of their parents and sending them back to their home countries where they will be in grave danger. they destroy families without a thought, and use the pandemic as an excuse. they expose those who have risked everything to seek freedom in this country to dangerous criminals across the mexican border as if the sacrifices that those asylum seekers means nothing.
diplomatic professionals who have dedicated their lives to serving this country are routinely dispensed with at the state department so that trump's allies can be placed in sensitive positions. the advice of these professionals is ignored, and incompetents have taken their places. we offend our allies, while trump nourishes relationships and praises dictators who are enemies of this country. we have a president who is ignorant of our history and promotes a view of it that is false and dangerous. he attacks the 1619 project through the department of education because he refuses to see the grave consequences of our reliance on slave labor through much of our history. he is now forcing changes in training aimed at helping government employees understand the wrongs we perpetuate because of insensitivity to the historic relationship between the races in our country and the need to change that relationship to one that is healthier for everyone, because he believes that anything that is critical of "our noble history" should be ignored so that white male privilege can be preserved.
may we stop the lies and the ignorance flowing from the highest level of our government by tossing trump and his senate allies out. may we show the world that truth and decency are important values in our country. may we elect those who will promote true patriotism that seeks to right the wrongs of the past, not perpetuate them. may we once again welcome those who come here to free themselves from fear, poverty, and tyranny. shalom.
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