Dear Friends: 1,690 of
you, on Facebook; 264 on LinkedIn, and a mere 31 on Twitter, if these social
media sites are to be believed. Now that we are gathered here: there is much
work to be done. President Paul Ryan, when he is inevitably sworn in—probably later this year—will need all our help,
support, and if you are a Believer, prayers. The madness is ending, our Republic saved by:
(1) an independent Free
Press (all mainstream News Media, especially, my favorites: the Washington Post, CNN, and NPR);
(2) a soon redeemed Republican
Party, drunk for a brief time, with a lust for power—fueled in no small
part by 8 years of a [somewhat] Black man in the White House, not
as a waiter, servant, or Secret Service member, but as President of the United States of America—that compelled them to
strip naked and get in bed with Satan
himself, but now, driven, by
self-interest, to claw their way back to our shared reality and remove Trump, his lackey, Pence, and their
neo-Nazi (oops, I mean Alt-Right, my
bad) enablers and hangers on;
(3) a moribund Democratic
Party, roused to full awareness by a shared near death experience with
the Nation they finally realize they actually
do care about;
(4) an Independent
Judiciary Branch, not populated
with Hispanic, Black, Jewish, [insert any other Trump-labeled/libeled out group here] ‘so-called’ Judges, but
with Patriot American Jurists, all—at
least when the real shit hits the fan,
and something/someone threatens our very way of life, who are rising to neutralize the threat;
(5) the Affordable
Health Care Act, a radical health care act vilified and derisively
labeled ObamaCare by his Republican Haters for 8 years; already
so imbedded in our flawed National Health Care system that it cannot be excised without bringing that
entire system down with it: brilliant, Barack
Hussein Obama; respect man,
and thank you, Mr. President… and finally;
(6) by We
the People, a plurality—by about 3,000,000 votes over those who voted
for Trump in November 2016—who saw thru the fraud
and threat that is Donald Trump, from the start; now joined by, according
to the most recent Gallop Tracking Poll numbers, almost all Independents who
should have known better, and at least a few still thinking Republicans.
The 36 percent who, inexplicably
still support Donald Trump, at least
the intellectual, if not actual, heirs to the same percent who opposed our Independence from the
British in 1776 and/or never accepted
their defeat before the righteous might
of the North against a renegade Slave-holding South in 1865 and ever since: We do not need them or their consent, to
restore our Nation to the greatness it never “lost,” their insane alternate reality notwithstanding. In
fact, our commitment to diversity and inclusion will continue to embrace them—often
willfully ignorant, racist, and/or fascist leaning, misguided, and dangerous
fellow citizens that they are. Because, among other things, as Secular Humanists
or truly religious people, we believe in reason
and/or grace (reason by another name,
perhaps, if you believe in a personal God, unlike me); either of which offer
the possibility of redemption. Like
my Facebook
icon says: Love Trumps Hate.
As I said at the onset,
there is much work to be done; much damage to repair; and many truly injured fellow citizens (of our
Nation and our Planet) to be made whole, again. So, let us begin, together…
[signed]
Andrew Paul Schettino, (Rockville, Md) Founder, The Sentient Being Group, Inc (right now, still a fiction in one
man’s mind—a dream or, maybe, a vision—but soon,
perhaps, a reality…)
This document endorsed
by: Anthony James Schettino, (Boyds, Md) and Valerie Ann Higgs, (Rockville, Md)
before publication. Several others received an invitation to do so, but on very short (3 hours) notice.
