Obscuring reality

I recently read a posting of bullet points by veteran journalist John Harwood, a distinguished fellow at Duke University. Here is what he wrote: 

It’s bad to relentlessly lie to your constituents.  

It’s bad to corrupt government for your own enrichments.  

It’s bd to damage the rule of law by denying due process, defying court orders and seeking legal vengeance against political opponents.  

It’s bad to appoint unqualifies sycophants and kooks to run major departments of government.  

It’s bad to fracture alliances with other democracies that help keep us prosperous and safe.  

It’s bad to pursue your objective with threats of force against people, organizations or friendly countries.  

It’s bad to wreck planning by businesses with repeated capricious shifts in their terms of trade. It’s bad to incite violence intended to thwart the will of votes and further encourage it by pardoning people convicted of committing that violence.  

It’s bad to upend the lives of civil servants with fabricated claims of fraud.  

It’s bad to summarily terminate foreign aid approved by Congress which poor desperate people depend on for their lives.  

Hartwood concludes that it is his job in 2025 to report on what Donald Trump is doing to our country and it would be derelict on his part to obscure the objective reality that it’s very, very bad. I feel too that it would be derelict of me not to share these thoughts with you.  

John Fugitt, Columbia Falls