One of the saddest things about #TrumpRussia beyond the obvious and very real insults and injuries of having traitors, spies, liars, crooks, demons, and delusionals in the White House and senior levels of the GOP is how having to deal with this hot mess is keeping America from attending to its real business.

The real business America needs to be attending to, but cannot because Trump is a traitor and a liar and a crook is:

• jobs
• education, and
• infrastructure.

It is the same story all over America, and all sane Americans understand what I am saying in a heartbeat. These are the fundamentals we cannot address as a nation because we have to clean out the nest of traitorous vipers which has infested the White House and Congress.

America knows we need more jobs in this country: jobs that pay more than a living wage, jobs that do more than keep someone standing on their feet for 10 to 12 hours a day picking crops or pushing cash register keys. When people have jobs that move our country forward, all of America wins. When people have jobs that give them the power to move up in the world, all of America wins. When people have jobs that empower them to change the world, all of American and all of the world wins.

America needs to become the world leader in 22nd century manufacturing but needs to do it in the 21st Century. This is a lofty aspiration, to be sure, but we can do it! Together we can put people to work while at the same time using the best of what automation can offer. Not only can we do this, but we must do this.

We cannot do this with a traitor in the White House who talks about jobs, lies about jobs, and talks about how much of a entrepreneur he is but everything he sells is made in China! 

Decades ago America embraced public education for all children. It is the foundation upon which our freedoms and our opportunities for the 21st, 22nd, and 23rd centuries will be built. Without education for all, regardless of financial circumstances, without education for all which invests in all of our children, regardless of race, creed, color, or financial circumstances, without education which calls for the best in our children, our country will suffer not just in the next decade but also in the next century and beyond.

We cannot move forward by moving backward. We cannot afford to have a dabbler heading up the nation’s efforts to give every child in this country the best education possible. 

And, America also knows a different kind of fundamental system, an underpinning of a different sort, is in desperate need of attention. All over this country our roads, our bridges, tunnels, water systems, and electrical grid are crumbling, decaying, and failing. Drive down any road in America, talk to any long-haul trucker in America or any bus driver, talk to anyone in Flint, Michigan.

Estimates vary, but everyone who has studied the issue in depth says we need to invest more than $40 billion in America’s infrastructure immediately. Immediately! And this figure does not even begin to cover the amount of money we need to invest in upgrading our transportation and electrical systems.

For years the Republican-led Congress has balked at spending anywhere near that kind of money. Yet, now, suddenly, the entire Republican Party has agreed spending $20 billion dollars to build a wall at America’s southern border is not only a good idea, it is a brilliant solution. No, absolutely not! Trump’s wall is a monument to racism, a brick and mortar sign of the hate in this man’s heart. And, it is a telling sign of the depths of depravity to which the Republican Party has sunk.

So, America, we must move forward and move relentlessly to remove the traitors, the spies, the liars, the crooks, the dabblers, the destroyers from our White House and Congress. That is, clearly, Job One. We will get it done. Then, we must, as a nation, move on to the real business at hand.