Capital P

 The truly saddest part about where we find ourselves now is that we are truly the opposition party. And not only that, it feels as though we have been since 2016. Those four years didn't figure in as some sort of palate cleansing sorbet. Instead, the Biden Administration will be viewed as the four years that common sense and decency was a voice in the wilderness while the braggarts and bullies had their way with the tone set in our country.

Admittedly, there was a mild respite from the worry about what fresh insult would be coming from the Oval Office, but we were still more than saturated with the Marge Greene, Lauren Bobo and Mike Johnson fount of ridicule and ridiculousness. Add to that the proliferation of court proceedings taken up in attempt to bring some sort of justice to the fraud and deceit that was painted with broad strokes by the former game show host whose regular attempts to skirt the law of the land became commonplace. 

Four years later, nothing could stop the nonsense juggernaut that is Trumpreich 2.0. The summit of justice for the people defamed, gaslit and manipulated by that first four years of having a slumlord for a "president" was never reached. That wish for the perp walk from Mar A Lago to the waiting police truck never materialized. Cases were "dismissed" and prosecutors left without ever seeing justice served. Instead we bore witness to the re-inauguration of the felon in chief who used his subsequent address to the nation to degrade and dismiss the accomplishments of the previous administration.

And gave us all a peek at the way the "new sheriff" was going to clean up this town. Much in the same way Al Capone cleaned up Chicago back in the 1920s. The idea that we should all just "buckle up" for the strange and dangerous ride for the next four years is torture to me. But for those whose rights and lives will be torn to bits in a flash by the reckless need for this man who should be serving time in jail instead of  moving into the White House can only give rise to more actual opposition. We, the people, deserve a leader, not an oligarch. We deserve peace, not land grabs by a man who likes to put his big gold T on everything he wants. 

We deserve a President. With a capital P.