January 30, 2018--November 6, 2018

It's not too early to mark this date on your calendar. 

It's midterm Election Day and on that date there is one thing, actually the only thing we can do to begin the process to remove Donald Trump from the presidency. 

And thus it is the most important day in decades. 

Forget fantasies that the Robert Mueller investigation and eventual report will bring that about. No matter what he finds Republicans until January 1, 2019 will control the House of Representatives where Impeachment must originate and there is no way, even if Mueller has Trump on tape and plays the tape of Trump directing Michael Flynn and his sons to lie to the FBI and Congress, it will not matter to Trump's followers or GOP lawmakers. They will see those tapes as fabricated by the FBI just the way they believe TV feeds of the landing on the moon were shot on a Hollywood sound stage.

They will claim it is fake news, that a conspiracy within the FBI, CIA, and Department of Justice is responsible for the findings and thus should not to be taken seriously. 

Democrats will attempt to keep the process going, so will most of the media, but at most it will be a 10-day story with business returning to usual as the public quickly becomes bored with the whole thing. It will be right in the middle of the football season and what can one expect.

Only Trump's rock-solid 30 percent of the population will remain on the alert. These are the most conspiratorial-minded of Americans, the least informed, the most paranoid. As crazy as they may be, combined with the billionaire GOP donors they control the Republican party and House members especially are in thrall to them.

But unless Republican House members are trounced in November, which at the moment seems possible--but just possible--we will not have just two more years of Trump but a total of six more.

So we need to get activated right now. 

We need to volunteer to work for our local Democratic committees. Especially in the purple or swing states. We need to pay particular attention to House members, all of whom are up for reelection with the exception of the growing number, mainly Republicans, who have already announced they will not be seeking reelection. 

And it is essential that we contribute and raise money to fund the cost of campaigns for Congress. Someone, all of us, need to chip in to offset the tens of millions the Koch Brothers are already making available to GOP candidates. And who, as a result, after the election, will be owned by the Kochs.

There is the cliche that an occasional election is the most consequential of our lifetimes. Most times it isn't. This time it may be true.

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