Alan S. Austin
Arizona Playwright • Writer • Poet
  

In the Gutter (8/27)

We expect dignity and gravitas from a President once he or she has taken office. We expect a President to represent all Americans whatever their political persuasions. Above all, we expect a President to uphold the Constitution, the country's system of laws put together arduously and democratically over the last 250 years. And we expect fairness, the same fairness we expect in our dealings within our own families and in the workplace. Now, after seven months in the Oval Office is the man we elected living up to these ideals or have we got it wrong? I believed the President is our representative no matter our own political persuasions or the color of our skin or our sexual choices. As citizens we all swear formally or informally to follow the Constitution whatever our disagreements. The law of the land must be our law. Sometimes we get it wrong and have to correct course. Slavery would never have never be right, persecuting and imprisoning people because they are a different color, background, or use a different language, have different sexual preferences will never be right. Unfortunately the ship of State is now listing towards autocracy, dividing rather than uniting. For it to sail fair into the future and secure our future we need fairer winds and to steer away from storms not towards them.