As I sit here thinking and reminiscing about the country I was fortunate enough to have been born in, and given the time I’ve been here, I now simply don’t recognize where I am.

I recall a country with its flaws, that was pretty honest and proud about what it stood for, and how it also recognized its citizens as actually the ones it worked for and tried to make life better for one and all, government included. Now what I see is a complete separation of the two — citizens on one side and government on the other.

As designated in the Constitution, we should be working together toward the common goals of unity, compassion and equality; right now that isn’t happening. The reason is obvious, the drastic error of electing a man who doesn’t really possess the very basic qualities we want and need in a president. He repeatedly told us how wonderful everything was going to be with him at the helm, and apparently the majority believed him. And now, given that we have elected him, he really believes he is in charge, period. “We, the people” are no longer part of the equation. In fact, some are being arrested for speaking against him.

This smacks of what goes on in Russia and China and dictatorships around the world. To be totally honest, what’s occurring is mirroring 1930s Germany. To allow this to continue is sheer madness.

Marc Jalbert
Lewiston