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Congratulations on making good on many of your campaign promises during your first few days in office.
In the execution of 46 executive orders, you have singlehandedly managed to change the trajectory of a nation. You have oppressed half of a nation, attempting to limit their inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
While the government is tasked with protecting its citizens from threats at home and abroad, it escapes me how commuting the sentences of the January 6 insurrectionists, many who admittedly are white supremist, aids in protecting U.S. citizens. I am baffled how these folk felt (in the first place) it necessary to form a coup d’état and then felt empowered to attempt overthrowing the government as they desecrated the Capitol building, created a security breach and maimed and killed police officers in their way.
President Trump, in less than a month, you have sparked a nation of fearful people to believe that you are as unpredictable as you are unstable. The chain of events surrounding the January 6 insurrection raises the question of whether Americans are safe from the 1,500 criminals that you released back to the streets. It also leads one to wonder if we are safe from a Russian invasion.
But answer this: How do the Capitol Police begin to trust that they are safe under your command? And how safe will you sleep at night knowing that security can be breached? You may not be as secure as you think.
Imposing tariffs on China, Mexico and Canada will do little to aid in our security or unity. Instead, it is likely that resentment will lead to dissonance and create enemies in our own front and back door.
As the elected commander in chief, you do know that you have a responsibility to legitimize and protect the rights of all the American people and not cause unnecessary rifts?
I, too, question the purpose of wanting to assume or invade Greenland and the Panama Canal; of not making good on promises to stop Russia’s invasion of Ukraine; and for not being able to stop the war in Gaza.
Yet you have imposed sanctions on programming that seeks to create unequal opportunities for deprived and marginalized groups of people. This will likely lead to heightened crime and widen opportunity and wealth gaps. This will not be good for the American people.
Lastly, I shudder to think about the USA withdrawing from the World Health Organization and the UN. It leaves us vulnerable on several levels. What do we do in the case of economic, biological or germ warfare without professionals that study these effects?
Then there is the attack on people and agencies that support the invisible, the marginalized, and disenfranchised. They need opportunities and a bootstrap to hold on to.
President Trump, will your policies always penalize the less fortunate, those who look different and those who worship and love differently than you?
You have managed to make good on your promises . . . I congratulate you on doing what you said that you would do. Now, I’d like to see you fulfill your duties as commander in chief and protect the American people from harm.
Dorothea Macon served nine years on Brown Deer’s Teaching and Learning Committee before deciding to run for the office of Brown Deer School trustee. She is serving in her second three-year term as an elected officer for the Brown Deer School District. Dorothea retired from Milwaukee Area Technical College in 2016 after 25 years of service as an adjunct faculty and full-time academic support specialist.
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