'Dire Consequences'

Editor:

Doomsday Dreaming – Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025

Maybe this is my way of joining the People’s March in Washington that did or didn’t happen today. I couldn’t sleep last night. Perhaps I didn’t realize that percolating under the surface of my consciousness was outrage — about the upcoming inauguration (“Top 10 Stories of 2024,” Dec. 26). That enough people voted to make him president (again) is beyond my comprehension.

A twice impeached president found liable of sexual abuse, found guilty and convicted of 34 felony counts of fraud (and numerous serious crimes that were buried) has successfully proved to be a master of deceit. Don’t they remember what he did the last time? Or don’t they care that he is promising to do it again?

He is promising to wage war: war on undocumented immigrants (mass deportations), war on women (whose bodies don’t matter), war on the LGBTQ community (whose rights don’t matter), war on race (Black lives don’t matter), war on Medi-Cal (poor people don’t matter), war on Medicare and Social Security (elders don’t matter), war on Democracy (his enemies list) and war on the earth itself (drill, baby, drill).

Can the irony be any more perfect than that a polar vortex of arctic air is sweeping across America, forcing his inauguration ceremony into the very Capitol Rotunda that was defaced and defiled four years ago, or is Mother Nature warning us that mistakes can have dire consequences?

April Jones, Arcata