Impeaching Trump is only the first step in fixing what we Liberals have allowed the fear that fuels hateful Conservatives to both globally damage America and domestically dehumanize all inhabiting our nation.

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6 October 1961, two years before the Cuban Missile Crisis, President John F. Kennedy urged Americans to build Bomb/Fallout shelters. Throughout his presidency, Donald Trump continues to align himself with those same enemies of America, soliciting their interference in our electoral process, and now, on a headline grabbing whim, facilitating Turkish violence against the Kurds America's staunch ally in our resistance to ISIS.

There will be no Better Angels until we make ourselves better allies to our friends in arms embracing a peace that's beyond our understanding.

Yes, increasing sinister darkness has overshadowed our vision of self, intimacy and union, widening our divide with a deceit that camouflages the light of connection with, all that glitters - one camp in blind obedience to self-serving leaders, and the other in denial that any departure of Trump/Pence will, nonviolently return America to, The Land of the Free, unscathed.

There will be no Better Angels, until we make ourselves better at facing the good, bad and ugly truth that, it's not just Trump.

Perhaps, our heroic global stand in response to Pearl Harbor to victoriously defend the world from a vile unimaginable foreign evil, our Greatest Generation, returned home believing our lives and nation could now be, if not a Shangri La, a more Justice for All, New Deal.

Perhaps such euphoria lulled us into a complacency vulnerable to imperceptible malevolent transformation from valiant to subservient chess pieces on the avarice board of corporatism's contorting, The Marshall Plan into The Military Industrial Complex.

There will be no Better Angels, until we make ourselves better at evolving from past assumptions to clarity regarding current enemies, foreign and domestic.

What is it that feeds the fear that fuels the hate that blunts our ability to honor our, Republic if you can keep it from an Attorney General of religious hypocrisy, silence is consent Vice President, and a conservative Republican Senate: proud recipients of Watergate, Iran Contra and Bush/Cheney perpetual oil wars?

There will be no Better Angels, until we make ourselves better citizens, being hereby resolved to elect better servants of the people.

Fighting among ourselves, we've become willing tools of the real enemies of the state, trolling our three co-existing, though not co-equal, branches of government Congress being the only branch empowered to remove presidents, judges and Supreme Court Justices from office.

When in a 2019 reality check, we remain oblivious to the lessons of"

• Keith Bishop's, The Republican Bond and Slop: The Wild Boar Nation
• More than thirty states still legally allowing Conversion Therapy to be practiced on minors
• Roe v Wade and a woman's right to choose
• Differing points-of-view in civil debate yielding to a time out from an all-inclusive: of, by and for the people

"we remain embroiled in domestic political, racial, religious, SCOTUS and sexual wars.

Cherry-picking both Bible and Constitution, we even make war on our need for intimate communion, shaming ourselves for desiring the healing power of mutually loving, touch.

There will be no Better Angels until we make ourselves better than Citizens United and haters of LGBTQ neighbors, allowing Conservative corporate money to decay America's lawful institutions in the manipulative power grab of an apathetic president and his morally bankrupt allies - so hazardous to the health of our nation and planet.

There will be no Better Angels until we make ourselves better to each other than servants to financiers changing our climate:

• Fracking and gas from pipelines and cows threaten our air
• Exxon knew and BP & Halliburton know it's easier to drill through the Arctic Ocean than towering rock-solid glaziers
• Governments and scientists knew earth's warming would raise sea levels from melting arctic ice and increasingly flood low level property in 1929, but did nothing to alter our Black Gold addictions

There will be no Better Angels, until we make ourselves better stewards of earth and better electorate for America.

Heed the call from FEC Chair, Ellen Weintraub knowing elections are not the private property of Reagan's Conservative intellectuals who, used by Russian hackers, still believe, like billionaires, they can control Putin's puppet president.

There will be no Better Angels, until we make ourselves better at training military and police forces, to put country before a president desperately seeking an exit strategy sans imprisonment.

Saying we love, God and Country, has never proven patriotism nor human decency. Our Better Angels await our realization that it's not Donald Trump, but those who electorally, financially and privately empower him.

Throughout industrial/scientific human history, threats of total annihilation: plagues, pandemics, smallpox, syphilis, Pneumonia, Polio, 1962 Russian/Cuban Nuclear Missile Crises, HIV/Aids - we couldn't imagine how we'd survive until we did!

Passionately pursue a life of excellence and our Better Angels shall appear, but it's not just Trump - it's us.

(Article changed on October 15, 2019 at 12:23)

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