Our President Commits Treason All Day Everyday
“. . . he is so preoccupied/ with bringing our society/ to its knees/ that he has/ taken sides with a murderous tyrant/ who’s playing him like an out-of-tune fiddle . . .” Poetry by Ernie McCray
We have a president who commits treason, an offence that just happens to be our country’s most serious crime and we haven’t called him out on it at any time which blows my mind because there have been times when engaging in trying to overthrow the government came with a steep price, as our nation once tied a rope around a man’s neck for tearing down the U.S. flag off a government building during the Civil War and there was a woman known as Tokyo Rose who, basically, talked trash on her radio show about our troops and those of our allies. That behavior was seen as aiding and abetting Japan, our enemy, and such criminality earned the perpetrator a ten year prison sentence. Uncle Sam didn’t play. But here we are today tolerating a man who has made treason his reason for being, in our face, every hour or so it seems like a machine ever since he came on the political scene, gifted at it, in one moment letting two-bit thugs loose in the US Capitol Building to steal an election, in another bullying judges and discrediting courts and destroying records and harboring boxes of highly classified documents or trampling on the rights of immigrants and people of color and gay folks or going after hard-earned social security benefits, like a fiend having a fit, or hiring unqualified stooges, some of them criminals, to run agencies that are vital to our wellbeing, or constantly attacking the rule of law or interfering in DOJ investigations or persistently promoting voter suppression… Need I mention that he is so preoccupied with bringing our society to its knees that he has taken sides with a murderous tyrant who’s playing him like an out-of-tune fiddle, putting the security of our nation and nations all around the world at a dangerously high risk … How Un-American is all this? And he hasn’t even been slapped on the wrist. And, sadly, the folks who hold the key to doing something about this are Republicans in Congress but they’re reticent to do so because he now owns them lock stock and barrel, making them traitors alongside him. So, we’ve got to push them through every mechanism available to us to get them to do what needs to be done: make this president a social and political has-been. Seems to be the least we can do to get out of the stew We the People are in.
Ernie McCray is an activist for love and peace who acts and sings and writes both poetry and prose, a man who rises each day to do whatever he can, no matter how small or grand, to make the world better in some way.
Unapologetically.