We have spent the last eight years worrying.
And now it comes to this — despondent, disappointed, sick to our stomachs with worry fear and hurt.
Well, God help us!
Except of course, why should God let Russia fall into a tyranny that invokes His name in defense of oppression and cruelty but save the US from a similar fate?
Somewhere someone said God helps those who help themselves.
But what can we do that would be any good? What can we say that would help?

We’ll divide this project into essays and poems.
The essays try to lay out the arguments for why we are right to be concerned.
The poems paint pictures of how this concern is writhing through us.

Essays

How do we do this? — At the end of August 2024 we try to give a quick synopsis of why we think Trump 2025 would be disastrous and perhaps even fatal to US American democracy. At the end of this essay, we list topics to explore.