As we wake each day to the news of new allegations of yet another high-ranking individual on Capitol Hill potentially playing a role in, either the Trump/Russia connection, or the subsequent cover-up of the Trump/Russia connection, our confidence in the democratic process, and our democracy as a whole, seems to be evaporating faster than a picture of Marty McFly’s family in 1955.

I don’t know about you, but every time I open my browser and am met with more instances of individuals who should’ve been in prison months ago, yet who somehow continue to not only remain free, but who operate with an air of patronizing invincibility, I’m faced with the serious problem of figuring out how to keep my breakfast down.

In less than three months in office, our so-called President has managed to thrust -not just Washington - but the entire country - into a state of moral chaos. Truly a remarkable achievement, especially for a guy who promised to Make America Great Again. Compared to these clowns, Watergate looks like a speed bump.

I long for the days when our politicians would save their diabolical plots of destruction for each other, and not go out of their way to involve the rest of us, or, better yet, foreign governments.

We are at an extraordinarily dangerous point in our history. The likes of which have ne’er been seen before. Each day we are forced to suffer the injustices and insults put forth from this joke of an administration, like an All-u-can-eat buffet of lunacy, is another day closer to total collapse. A by that, I mean a total collapse in confidence.

Confidence is the only thing that keeps the entire world’s economy afloat. Confidence in the dollar, in the market, in businesses and corporations, in each other, and in our government. Once the latter goes, the rest will surely follow.

Each day that passes that Congress fails to appoint a dozen or so special prosecutors to untangle the web of lies and subterfuge spun by the Trump administration is another blow to our confidence as a nation, drawing us closer and closer to the demise of our Democracy as we know it. Each day Trump is allowed to trample on every ethical principle held in high regard by every single President before him, is another day closer to meltdown. Each day he is allowed to use the office of The Presidency to enrich his own personal wealth, is a slap in the face to everything the office represents.

Who can we trust if we can’t trust our leaders? And, how can we trust our leaders when we’ve lost confidence in the very process that elects them? What does it mean when the ones who make the laws seem to have no issue breaking the law if it suits their purpose? After all, without the consent of The People, The Law is nothing but a bunch of words on paper. The Rule of Law can only be respected and upheld if the population of its citizens allows it to be. (See “Arab Spring”)

The last time the citizens of this nation felt they were being stonewalled, silenced, and taken for a bunch of patsies by their government, an armed revolution broke out. Which, in the end, ultimately saw a government set up under a new set of laws meant to prevent the very type of madness we’re now witnessing, from ever happening again. Let’s hope history doesn’t repeat itself in this instance, but what happens now is anybody’s guess.

The daily act of treason/betrayal isn’t only reserved for agents of the Trump administration, either. The betrayal to their party on the part of the three democratic senators (all of whom hail from states won by Trump) who’ve come forward in support of Gorsuch, are turncoats just the same. “Traitor Joe” Donnelly of Indiana, being the latest. They’ve betrayed their party’s ideals in favor of trying to save their own skins come the next election. Talk about cowards. If women’s rights, the rights of minorities, helping the poor and the sick, the protection of our environment, and the rights of an individual vs. a corporation mean nothing to them, it’s high time they change the D to an R, as they can no longer call themselves members of the Democratic party without everyone in the room breaking out in fits of laughter.

Next up, the Republicans, whose main claim to fame is they spent the better part of the past decade betraying their oath of office in favor of suffocating the Obama agenda and refusing any type of compromise, and who, like the petty infants they are, refused to even show up to hear what SCOTUS nominee, Merrick Garland, had to say, have plainly stated if they don’t get the votes they’ll need (which they won’t), they’ll simply “change the rules.”

Not that a changing of the rules hasn’t been done in the past, but, what makes this such a dangerous move is, when you take all the shit that’s already happened - and is happening -, and combine it with the fact that, in few short months, we may have a Supreme Court justice who was appointed by a president who’s either in jail, impeached, or whose entire administration has been declared incompetent by the chief psychiatrist at Bellevue, how can We,The People be expected to adhere and accept anything our government says and does and asks us to do, especially the Supreme Court?

When a cop or teacher is put under investigation, all their work is suspended. Why shouldn’t the same go for the President? Until such time as Trump, and his cabinet, are cleared of any wrong doing (by an independent body), none of his policies or nominees should be allowed to proceed forward. And anyone allowing him to continue this disgraceful, kleptocratic behavior, unabated, should also be branded a traitor.

One thing is for certain. No matter the outcome, this boat of confidence is in serious danger of capsizing. And then, as if we’re not there already, it’s every man for himself. The “United” in United States is fading faster than Buford T. Justice in the rear view of the Bandit’s Trans-Am.

Once that happens, all the Facebook petitions in the world won’t matter. The only thing that will serve any real purpose for those of us who haven’t already blown our brains out is absolute, total resistance. Peaceful disobedience of each and every law that violate each and every principle this country was founded on. Resistance by individuals, by mayors, by city/state employees, officials, governors, etc. You can’t enforce laws no one will obey. Just ask the folks who tried to during Prohibition.

The “funny” part in all of this is, if treason is so acceptable now, why not let #Snowden back in? After all, here’s a guy rotting in a tiny Moscow apartment, branded a traitor, unable to return, whose only crime was alerting the world to crimes being committed by our government. Meanwhile, the real traitors go to work each day, completely undeterred from their mission: that of using their positions of power to violate the Constitution each and every way they can, in an attempt to discriminate against those different from them, and to line their already deep pockets.

Are we really gonna let some orange-haired, egomaniacal, crotch-grabbing, misogynistic Pied Piper of Doom and his dirty rats throw away two-hundred and fifty plus years of respect and progress? Are we really gonna let men like Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan, two worthless parasites, lead us to our demise?

It is the duty of every, single free-thinking, equal rights-supporting American to begin to openly defy and #RESIST any laws or lawmakers appointed by this shit-show of an administration starting now, in any way we can. If not, we only have ourselves to blame. And, if that’s treason, then call me a traitor.