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Dear Trump Supporter On Npr

Dear Lady, I heard you say that you still trust President Trump to do almost as good a job as he says he is doing, despite all the lies, because "they all do that", just say whatever the audience of the moment would most like to hear. Really? I believe Abraham Lincoln, our first Republican President, would be surprised to hear his Gettysburg Address was "telling them what they want to hear" in his best cheerleader, go, fight, win voice. And it seems to me that Thomas Jefferson, one of the PreRepublican forefather type Presidents, would object to hear his rather specific name-calling Declaration of Independence from plutocratic, and perhaps greedy, and maybe slightly cynical, Elitists, was just telling the good King what he really wanted to hear. But regardless of whether our quality standards for Presidential integrity should reasonably be expected to go up, now that we're into our 40th-something incarnation of this Office, or reasonably be expected to go down after the first two or three, or sixteen, or whatever back in ancient integrity times, when the premillennial pubic person was worth his/her word in trust repaid. How can you trust a President who is significantly less sure of your right to health and climate care giving and receiving for yourself and for our multiculturing grandkids, than was the former President? How is that going in a direction that you and your healthy extended pro-life family, your tribe, neighborhood militia, or paranoid klan, or whatever you continue to trust as some direction that could be good enough for those you love the most? Health, like racism and sexism, does not optimally arrive in individual-portioned packages; they only sustain resilient climaxes on interdependent through empty and bereft social scales of qualities for cooperative wealth v WinLose competing pathologies. Still Listening Your Democratic HealthAsWealth Advocate

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