TRUMP LACKING COMMON SENSE IN BATTLE OVER HIS WALL

don’t believe me just roll the tape of the past few days of the president’s family and friends demonstrating their complete lack of empathy and understanding about the lives of working people.

At some point, though, the pain our friends and neighbors have to endure because of Trump’s shutdown starts to affect the broader population. We have reached that point.

Take the air traffic controllers, for example. Most of them have had to work without pay, doing a high stress job that holds the lives of the flying public in the balance. Add to that stress the inability in many cases to pay the rent, buy food for their families and pay the bills that keep sanity in their lives and you can see the witches’ brew that is created that cause them to lose the focus that is essential for them to keep planes in the air and away from each other.

Not to be overly dramatic but Las Vegas, for example, lives on our guests’ decision every day to fly into and out of the Entertainment Capital of the World. How long do we reasonably have a right to expect that the flying public will trust their lives to stressed out, unhappy and overworked air traffic controllers? Now imagine every city in the country feeling that kind of pain!

I don’t know how long Trump is going to keep up the charade of protecting America’s borders by way of a wall that may not be needed and no one really wants or wants to pay for, but the bottom line in America today is that he needs someone to provide a strong dose of common sense as well as a civics lesson about how democracy should work in the United States.

Thursday’s Senate votes demonstrated that there are a handful of Republican senators who understand how wrong this shutdown is. Would that there were just a few more Republicans willing to stand up and be counted.

Friday’s announcement that Trump was reopening the government until mid-February and paying federal workers what is owed them is also welcome news because it means that there were many more Republicans who forced Trump to capitulate.

What remains to be done is to do what Congress is supposed to do: negotiate, compromise and fix the immigration problems in this country.

We all hope sanity prevails. If it doesn’t by the Feb. 15 deadline, we will need many more Republican patriots to step up to fight the future madness of King Don.