I am too old……….but I am a purist about Democracy…..with my own corollary to the Second Amendment

A good friend from my high school days has been reading me off and on for several years now: P had this to say about my column comparing an Athena-like God Trump endowed with as many phalluses below his belt as Athena of Ephesus is depicted with a dozen mammary glands. Both divinities have long lines of people waiting to take a drink like at the old southern water fountain only in this case marked “good people only” and sewage.

“Rep rep rep rep, sounds like little dogs yipping, the ones licking the boots of the richboys running the show now.
I’m glad I can cheer you up Harry. You do the same for me. Although the overly endowed donald getting pleasured by RepReps might be a bit too vivid for me! ??”
P

To which I replied:

I am too old and cranky to bother much with subtlety when the constitution is under threat.

I am such a firm believer in democracy that if the voting public elects a traitor, liar, rapist, lynch mob leader, I will abide by their decision. I also believe that the consequences of such choices are probably the best way to teach them the necessary lessons.

Maybe the appearance of determination that Trump exudes with near mania will pay off. Maybe Putin will capitulate in Ukraine. Maybe Trump will make millions for billionaire real estate gamblers on the graves of carpet-bombed descendants of Jews who converted to Islam. Maybe the changes in the world economy since William McKinley raised tariffs before America was the big man on the block will not blow up in our faces like the Trump piss in the recent cartoon that everyone has seen blowing back in his face as he urinates on a fan. But I suspect he won’t be so lucky.

I’m still not sure if he plans to subvert the Constitution by willfully ignoring the Supreme Court, running for a third term, and treating the constitutional prerogatives of Congress with contempt, but his breathtaking pettiness, like sending a message to Quarterback Mahommes’ wife not to sit with Taylor Swift, suggests he’s so infantile that he couldn’t set aside his mean-girl petulance to pursue a Nobel Prize.

I will add a Welty corollary to my judgment that the American public has a right to elect a traitor. It is this:

If said traitor doesn’t bother to change the constitutional amendment the Republican Party passed after FDR’s four terms and thus limiting a president to a maximum of two full terms. Then, no electoral victory for a renegade presidential candidate will be acceptable. Should such a candidate tempt fate and run without the required constitutional amendment, every American with a sniper rifle has the right, duty, and obligation to shoot such candidate on sight or on New York’s Fifth Avenue wherever he dares wave his ear.

About the author

Harry is a ferociously good natured eccentric in Duluth Minnesota who detests traitors dressed up as Uncle Sam. You can find somewhat better edited writings of his at the Duluth Reader "contributors." page. The URL is:

https://duluthreader.com/contributors/h/84/284-harry-welty