I heard today from two people that make me wonder. One was searching for information about a flood plan for her worksite. The .gov website said that it was being modified to comply with President Trump’s Executive Orders. The other person got the same message in searching for information about sinus infections.
Information we receive from our government on matters such as flood plans and sinus infections should be based on the best available research and knowledge. It is clear that this Republican administration wants to bend all information to its peculiar spin on it. To the people who are now supposed to be serving our common good, alternate facts have as much currency as real facts, even in matters of life and death.
How long will it be before we won’t be able to trust government statistics on things like inflation and employment rates? Not long, I suspect. That seems to be the way we are headed. It’s sad, it’s dangerous, it’s ignorant.
On another matter…the president is creating a task force led by our newly-minted Attorney General to root out and fight “anti-Christian bias” in the government, with the goal of “bringing God back” into American life.
One reason may be to try to protect anti-abortion protesters who cite their Christian faith as the basis of their opposition. But the larger appeal is to those Evangelical Christians who do not know the difference between Donald Trump and Jesus Christ. The task force is a shameless appeal to one particular expression of one particular religion.
The government must be careful not to engage in any kind of anti-religious bias, but a task force to fix that problem seems to me to be an over-reach. Most of those matters are best decided by a court, based upon the constitution and the law.
And it is certainly NOT the job of the president or any other public official or body to bring God back into American life.
It’s sad, it’s dangerous, it’s unconstitutional…as any 6th-grader should know.
Dead on as usual my friend.
ReplyDeleteThank you for your insights! Marilyn
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