WOULDN’T IT BE NICE?

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I’ve decided not to run for president.  I do seem to qualify.  After all, I am in my seventies and I have had treatment for heart problems.  But, well, with my new job and all …

Anyway, while I was considering it, I spent some time thinking about how I would approach it, what my message would be, what I would say to and about my fellow Americans and my fellow aspirants to the office.  The one thing that dominated my thinking was that the entire object of this presidential campaign was to get rid of Donald Trump.

Yes, there are many things that we Americans need to do.  We do need to find a way to provide affordable health care to everyone.  We do need to remedy the awful damage we visited on native Americans and minorities over the years.  We do need to repair our beaten down and dangerous infrastructure.  We do need to restore balance to income sharing and the payment for our communal, governmental needs.

We need to do all of that.  But before all, and in fact key to all, is to remove the cancer that is Donald Trump from the oval office.  Why?  Look at the list I just recited.  These are each key elements in the pursuit of that ideal which defines us as Americans, the commitment to the inalienable rights of all human beings.  Think about this:  Donald Trump is opposed to each and every one of them.  He is not just a bad president.  We have had and survived those before.  By his words and by his conduct he has conclusively demonstrated that he is unalterably and profoundly opposed to that very defining ideal itself.  He is, at his heart, anti-American.  We either get rid of him or we surrender the very ideals that define us.

So, I didn’t run.  Instead, I turned to the debates to listen to these fine candidates denounce this disaster that is Trump the Chump.  But to my great surprise and dismay, all I hear is each of these people attacking, not Trump, but each other.  Warren whacks Sanders.  Sanders submarines Mayor Pete. Pete pounds on Klobuchar.  And they all butcher Biden.  It’s like watching a murder/suicide.

Wouldn’t it be nice if all that stopped?  Wouldn’t it be nice if one of them would jump up and shout, “STOP IT!!!  We are here for one reason and one reason only — take this awful nightmare out of the presidency.  We do nothing for ourselves, and absolutely nothing for this country that we love, by chewing on each other.  I don’t give one good damn if I win or any one of you wins.  I care only that this country needs to be saved from Trump’s frontal attack on our ideals.  Our every word and action should be only that!”

Would it be nice if one of them said that?  Wouldn’t it be nice if the whole bunch of them was dedicated solely and entirely to ridding this country of the worst, most dangerous president we have ever had?

I’d have done it myself.  But, you know, the new job and all ….

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Michael Gillick was born and raised in Wisconsin. He received a bachelor's degree in classical languages and a master's degree in philosophy from St. Louis University and a law degree and a doctorate in philosophy from Marquette University. He is president of the firm of Gillick, Wicht, Gillick & Graf, and he has, for almost all of his legal career, concentrated on representing injured workers. Mr. Giilick's philosophical work has focused on the grounds of morality and the meaning of justice. He has written and lectured on these subjects in the United States and elsewhere. His work is most thoroughly dependent upon the thinking of Emmanuel Levinas, a twentieth century philosopher who dedicated himself primarily to the methods of phenomenology set forth by Edmund Husserl. In particular, it was the thinking of Levinas that brought Mr. Gillick to understand that his search for a metaphysical basis for morality was misguided, and that, in fact, it was morality that was the ground of metaphysics. Mr. Gillick married Margaret Keehner in 1969. He and Margaret have three daughters and six grandchildren.

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