Mother of Exiles

 now that the president and many of those around him have been infected with covid-19, the importance of this year's election is underscored.  as the nation has watched the president and his advisors ignore and contradict the recommendations of medical experts, we have seen the grave peril in which their actions have placed us.  as in many other areas, including climate change and environmental degradation, this administration has turned its back on science to pursue a course that is dangerous and shortsighted.  increasing the short term wealth of businesses at the expense of the health and safety of our population has placed us all in danger.

the alternative being presented to us by the president's challenger in the election, mr. biden, demonstrates that we can do much better if we heed the warnings and advice of science by moving to an economy that capitalizes on the need to protect our natural beauty and resources and to make health care available to all our people.  we can produce the energy we need by using clean, renewable sources while slowing both climate change and pollution of the ground, air, and water.  in the process, new jobs will be created, and we will all be better off.

the choice is clear: a science-denier versus a candidate who believes in science, a make-money-at-any-cost failed businessman versus a candidate who believes that we must share the wealth of this nation with all our citizens, a man who tries to deny access to medical care to many of us versus one who believes we are better off as a nation if we all have access to the care we need, a sitting president who ignores the findings of our intelligence community and ingratiates himself with dictators versus one who believes that we ought to pay attention to and act on what we learn from our intelligence agencies and that we should befriend our democratic allies and oppose totalitarian regimes.  it is difficult to see why some still place such stock in mr. trump after all we have learned about him and his family.  we have a pathological liar for a president, one who is at the mercy of unknown entities because of his large debts, and still his faithful base heaps adulation on him.

may we vote mr. trump and those who enable him out of office.  may we elect a leader for whom we have respect, one who embraces inclusiveness rather than sowing chaos.  may we show the world that we are better than what mr. trump and his ilk would have us be.  may we be a partner to  other nations in creating a better world that promotes human values and cares for the earth, rather than an "america-first" sort of country that heaps disdain on our friends.  shalom.