I am an infrequent diarist, but a long-time member of Kos. Today I saw something here that troubled me enough to put down my phone and wake my keyboard.
There is currently a diary on the rec list discussing Hurricane Dorian. It is tracking to hit the east coast of Florida right around Mar-a-lago. In that diary and one other there are comments gleefully wishing for the hurricane’s entire destructive force to come down on the Trump property. Guess what...there are millions of others in that path as well. Oh, I get the irony of the situation; a climate change denier and generally vile person in a position of power subject to a force likely exacerbated by the climate change he denies. It is ironic, but that does not make it funny.
Hurricanes are brutal and do not discriminate. They kill people, ruin lives, spread around the environmental damage we have already done and cripple local economies.
I prefer to take the high road here. Let’s beat DJT where it matters, in the voting booth and in the courts. What we should not do, IMHO, is create content that could be mined later to use against us when we try to point to our own compassion and humanity, something I think is at the very core of the Democratic Party.
No, not even in jest. Hurricanes are not Karma or a tool for justice; they are a force of nature. Wishing that force on anyone is vindictive and brings us down to their level. I don’t want vengeance; that is the Trump way.
I just want DJT gone from the Oval office and then subject to a force we can control...Righteous Justice.