THE LAST ‘COMMENT’ was in October of 2020 and it asked Trump supporters in the United States, how is it possible for a voter’s moral compass to become so corrupted, that this man ends up in an elective office?  Any elective office!

Donald Trump demeaned his country’s high office of president during his 2017-2021 tenure, he degraded U.S. international prestige and illegally attempted to hold on to an office he hadn’t discharged with integrity and honour. Nonetheless, one third of American voters abandoned reason and their democracy in the 2024 election, humiliating themselves before the world to put Donald Trump back into the White House.

What are we to say?  Donald Trump is an unrepentant career criminal, bigot, racist, misogynist, predator with no concept of truth, a lack of empathy, a voracious capacity for greed, and a preference for wallowing in the gutter.  He was personally responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans during the COVID pandemic.  He may kill thousands more by ignoring the dangers of the climate crisis and stifling research for a response to bird flu. In just the first few months of his new regime he’s revealed a moronic dementia by loosing agents of the abyss upon friend, foe and countrymen in the pursuit of wealth, billions to sate his own lust and gift what have come to be called his “billionaire buddies.”  Donald Trump is not deserving of our respect or deference.

All the while, the United States has been threatening Canada’s sovereignty since at least James Madison’s attempt to drive the British out of North American in the War of 1812.  The U.S. can be a fickle and envious ally, and it is our own fault that we put so many of our trade partnership eggs into one basket.

51^st state?  Why forever for?  Americans have worthy but expensive health care, are bled to anemia to profit the mega-medical industry and are menaced by a weak health-care system.  Ours is faulty and in search of champions but is preferable.  Some U.S. educational jurisdictions ban books and intolerance is a widespread watchword.  The gun culture is idiotic, the 2^nd Amendment is redundant and the NRA is a domestic terrorist organization.  Politics is toxic and corrupted by special interests.  The United States still imposes a death penalty!  And why would we want to be a part of a country that elected a Donald Trump to anything?  51^st state?  Why forever for?

In the end, Trump will be gone.  We will still be here.  They will still be there.  We will be ever changed, hopefully for the better.  Backbones, too?

(Ed. note:  This writer waits for the day when Trump is carried out of the White House with a rage-induced stroke, leaving the walls of the Oval Office covered with half-eaten cheeseburgers.)