Our Tiny-Fingered Tyrant is an obvious racist with policies to match. This is fact, not opinion, not fake news. As harmful as that is to our nation's institutions and global reputation, the general silence about it on the right is just as bad, maybe worse. It's enabling. Republican politicians cravenly look away or make excuses, in hopes of selfishly pushing through their destructive agenda with a fake president who'll sign anything.
Buster has a few conservative readers (not many), and for them, appropriate for this day, here's a fitting excerpt from Martin Luther King's "Letter From the Birmingham Jail."
First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.
The current administration has subjected us to daily outrages, but we must not succumb to outrage-fatigue. People of good conscience are obligated to do something, say something, to fight these gross offenses.
My quiet conservative and moderate readers/friends, your unwillingness to speak out is revealing, as MLK put it, the content of your character.
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