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Letter: Trump is a symptom, not the problem

(Vucci | AP file photo) President Donald Trump stands in front of the media while talking about the situation at the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, from his Mar-a-Lago property, Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2019, in Palm Beach, Fla.

People need to understand who their real enemies are in this country, and it isn’t their fellow Americans.

Too few people seem to be able to connect the dots, or are just unwilling to see the connections because they enjoy a false sense of superiority over their fellow Americans, without the benefit of any real knowledge.

The problem in this country isn’t Donald Trump. Trump is just the thing that oozed out the rear end of a broken and corrupt government and political process. He is a symptom of mass failure and greed on the part of our elected officials, Wall Street and corporations.

Trump will be gone sooner or later, but the corrupt machine that created him will still be in place. The politicians who inhabit Congress and pretend to be either his ally or his prosecutor are no better than Trump.

The problem is the deliberate and systematic dismantling of our government and our political process in order to appease corporations, Wall Street and the wealthy. Leaving us with no voice.

Voting isn’t enough. It won’t get the job done. We need to rise up as Americans and engage in mass revolutions of civil disobedience and resistance.

Daniel Fjeld, Taylorsville

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