American democracy is dangerously at risk of implosion! Vote Blue!

We need expertise more now than ever; our country and our planet are at stake. Echo opinion letter published in the Delaware State News: 

This letter writer makes the urgent connection between protecting American democracy and the methodology during World War II, in  supporting the Manhattan Project. 

By 1945, the scientists of the Manhattan Project working to develop and build a nuclear weapon had made significant progress. Democrats now need the same kind of urgent strategy.

In Trump world, there is only one value that really matters: (blind!) loyalty. People who make up the “intelligentsia” — the doctors, scientists, judges, the top people in all professions and anyone who thinks for him- or herself — are not to be trusted because their loyalty is to the truth, not to a person. In Trump world, this kind of independence is deemed a threat.

This is not new stuff. Donald Trump’s kind of narcissism is as old as mankind. What is new are the stakes. We sit at the edge of two impending man-made catastrophes: the end of our democracy and runaway climate change. At this critical moment, one of the major players, the Republican Party under Trump, has left the building. 

First, they decided democracy is simply an obstacle on their path to permanent power; and second, they are in denial of the science that tells us that human-caused climate change is an existential threat to mankind.

So Democrats now have a problem much like that facing the scientists of the Manhattan Project in World War II. Those men and women worked night and day to beat the Nazis to the atomic bomb. The Democratic Party now needs to beat the Republican Party to the proverbial button that will blow up our democracy and our world. This can happen only by overwhelming the Republicans at the ballot box. Thank goodness, more and more Democrats and moderates of all stripes are beginning to see the light.

From Fred Longacre in Hockessin, a census-designated place in New Castle County, Delaware, United States.

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