The Damage of Trump's Low Bar Presidency Is Worse Than You Think

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31. Collectively, we are getting our comeuppance.

This nation has allowed people with the worst impulses free reign for too long a time. Watching, largely silent, while some of us work to demonize and disparage those with honor, and allowing those who endlessly champion aggression, turn away from wisdom, willfully disregard facts, and ridicule kindness and compassion a larger voice than those who value truth and the revere the principle of “do no harm” has its consequences. “We” deserve Trump.

Trump emerged into the public consciousness at the very time America decided to ditch our better selves and embrace the lowest common denominator. He has been over 30 years in the making and like it or not, is as much a reflection of who we really are as Obama was a reflection of who the better part of us desperately want to become.

People who want to do the right thing are being drowned out by those who have allowed their Ids take the reigns, imprisoning their spirits and denying their higher selves to the detriment of all. Those of us who haven’t will need to continue to let those in our sphere know exactly where we stand. We are going to have to be more and more relentless without sacrificing our values. Not an easy task. The question is, how much damage will be done before enough of us realize with the unwavering, powerful conviction that forces action we need to ditch this path and work together to forge a new one that moves towards balancing the needs and desires of all sentient beings?