This current administration is pounding dangerous chaos on us, such as: troops in our cities for no reason; on & off again tariff wars, loyalty-style governance, photo-ops with Russian dictator, voter suppression measures including mail-in balloting, strong arming our libraries, universities, media companies and private corporations, scare tactics of intimidation by guys in black masks, or law-suits simply for personal vengeance.

The method to this purposeful chaos may be to keep us spinning! Look here-look there tactics, so we don’t think about the fact that our democracy is being undermined by the current administration as they try to move us into autocracy. But, then…. just maybe it’s so we do not look closely at the Epstein files?

Citizens holding jobs and raising families barely have enough time to concentrate on this constant chaos. Or, we might be busy fighting for causes, or maybe we are just apathetic about government, or maybe we think that our government will survive like always and get back to normal. 

I think, if we want our county to remain a democracy,  we can’t normalize nor desensitize to this chaotic, autocratic governing, but rather we stand up and speak out to our legislative representatives and then we vote.

Our children are watching.

                                                                   Mary Ann Lauffer