Sunny Side Up with Mike

Dear Friends,

The other day I mentioned to a friend that my attention had been especially harshly assaulted by an Op-ed in the New York Times:  Easily the Worst President in U.S. History by Thomas B. Edsall.  The catalogue of damage Trump has done to our country and the world is not so much unknown as appalling in its vast array.  To wit, Edsall's introduction:

 The damage President Trump has inflicted on the United States and the world is so enormous and wide-ranging that it is hard to grasp.
It runs the gamut from public and private institutions to core democratic customs and traditions, from the legal system to universities, from innocent targets of fraud to those duped into believing vaccines do more harm than good.

That same day I had also encountered another similar rendition in an Op-ed from Jamelle Bouie -- Trump Holds the American People In Total Contempt.  Bouie's attempt at grasping the enormity of Trump's destruction struggled similarly:

To say that President Trump is corrupt is to somehow understate the size, scope and magnitude of his corruption.
It is as if you were to describe a modern thermonuclear device as a "bomb."  That is true enough, but it is not quite the truth.  It does not capture the nature of the thing in full.

This note began as my response to my friend's request that I share the Edsall piece with him.  On reflection, however, I thought of all the times something in my life or my family's life was not working properly or as advertised or as needed or as promised.  Stopping to pay dedicated and exclusive attention to fixing it can be a bother or a distraction or just simply a nuisance.  "I'll do it tomorrow," I have been known to say.  Fixing the problem, however, can be a joy, especially when the cause is somebody taking advantage of you, somebody not doing their job or maybe even somebody scamming you.  It is a joy to eliminate the fraudster.  It is even more of a joy to have things working properly and free of the burden imposed.  Fixed and working the way they should.

So where -- out of all this -- is the sun in "Sunny Side Up" you likely wonder.  We know what's wrong.  We know the source of the malfunction, the maladministration, the failure of things to work properly in our communities, our nation and our world.  And we know the remedy.  All that is needed is that we pay dedicated attention over the next months from now till November 3 to contribute our share to giving ourselves a Congress that works for us -- properly, selflessly and effectively with exclusive dedication to America's best interests as a nation and as a member of the world community.  Let's do it -- together.

Sunny Side Up!!  With best regards.

Mike
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