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“This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.” Franklin Delano Rooselvelt
The Democrat’s election sweep on November 2 is proving that American voters are heeding President Roosevelt’s famous warning at his first inaugural address, that the paralysis has broken for Democrats after the loss to Trump, and fear can be conquered that is the greatest enemy of Democracy.
The November 2 elections showed just how illusory were those fears that Donald Trump and Republicans wanted Americans to believe, the first and foremost that the largest, most prosperous country in the world had grown weak. Americans were in danger, and only he and his oligarchs could save US.
In fact, Donald Trump and the Republican Party have been attempting to weaken everything that makes America the oldest constitutional democracy since his first day in office.
Whether it is the slashing of essential government services via Elon Musk’s DOGE computer hackers (such as social security, Medicare, Medicare) that benefit all Americans, the elimination of the Department of Education that supports our basic universal K-12 and early childhood educational systems, picking the most unqualified to run the FBI, Department of Homeland Services, and Health and Human Services that are no longer fully functional. Americans are suddenly exposed to more disease, domestic terrorism, and natural disasters.
The brutal roundup of undocumented immigrants, whether they have a criminal record, are decimating the ranks of workers that fill agricultural, manufacturing, and service sector jobs needed to maintain economic growth.
The biggest financial threat to ordinary Americans are the rising prices on basic necessities that most Americans depend on due to tariff rates now at Great Depression levels, impoverishing the majority of Americans that live from paycheck-to-paycheck.
It’s become obvious that the Trump administration’s intent has been to instill as much fear as possible in the most vulnerable Americans that the federal government won’t work for them and only Trump and his oligarchs can same them.
But the recent election and huge protests at the No Kings rallies are a sign that millions of Americans haven’t been cowed or paralyzed.
In fact, they have said, as did Howard Beale, the News Anchor in the movie Network, “I’m as mad as hell and not going to take this anymore!”
Harlan Green © 2025
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