On Your Left

Yesterday, April 3rd, 2025, President Donald J Trump announced “Liberation Day” and then. proceeded to slam the entire world's more tariffs than the United States has ever levied against another nation.

Today, April 4th, 2025, the stock markets plunged at the opening Bell and didn't stop. And the layoffs of American workers. began. I don't see much hope in the near future.

If you're old enough, you remember when we all knew America had serious problems. Racism, sexism, homophobia, income inequality, and the power of the billionaire class plagued us all. Yes, things weren't great. But we were moving in the right direction. Things were looking brighter every day. There was a sense of hope and optimism in the American people, even in the most downtrodden. We all knew it was going to get better. It was soon going to be our time to live the good life. Things would be good for everybody and just who we metered. it out equally.

Then 9-11 happened, and it broke our nation and our people.

Maybe forever.

After that, rabid racism and irrational, often hysterical, fear ruled the day. We became a nation of terrified children looking for someone to blame and a strong man to lead us. Eventually, the fearful and the hate-filled got their wish. They were willing to relinquish freedom and democratic rule of law for the illusion of safety and security. And that's what they got.

In the last 100 days, Donald Trump and his true paymaster, Elon Musk, have broken the United States government. They've dismantled whole departments and shut down agencies. They've wiped out rules that protected people and imposed new ones that do nothing but hurt others. At this moment, tens of thousands of American government employees have been. laid off or directly fired. As crazy as that sounds, it looks like it's only the beginning. And there are 10s, maybe hundreds of thousands more to come. There is talk of martial law if protesting Americans give them the opportunity, or more realistically, the excuse, to impose it. And more talk of Trump running for a third term, even though he's constitutionally forbidden to do so. I can't believe I'm the only one that thinks military forces will be used to enforce a 3rd term.

Things no longer look brighter every day. They look darker and more evil Then the day since the Civil War, or the darkest hours of the civil rights movement. I don't know what will happen to America or what we'll be like in ten years. One thing I am sure of is that the terrorists won. If there's such a place as hell, the ghost of Osama bin Laden is looking up at us and laughing.

But...

I refuse to accept that our freedom is lost.

I refuse to believe that we are beyond the tipping point as a civilization.

I still have hope for the future.

I've said it several times. Now, things look dark for Americans. We've already been living under ten-plus years of this man's insanity and sociopathic behavior. It's no exaggeration to say he has wrecked us.

Right now, at the cusp of pour darkest hours, Americans need a friend that still believes we are worth saving.

We need someone to say, "Hey, Americans... on your left."

-Josh (04-04-2025)