With what is happening in the perverted leadership of our nation, a sizable number of Americans, including us, are worrying aloud if the democratic republic created by our founders 250 years ago, is lost. When the nation’s founders two and a half centuries ago, fashioned the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, Benjamin Franklin was asked what they had created. “A republic,” he said, “but only if we can hold on to it.”

As a 78-year-old newspaperman and photojournalist man who covered government, politics, wars and other events for six-plus decades, I admit being tired of the bullshit, lies and criminality of the convicted felon in the White House and his MAGA Maggots in Congress who sit on their asses and do nothing to stop him.

America is rolling back the clock to Jim Crow times, when Blacks and other minorities were not treated as equals, were denied the right to vote or be citizens. Donald Trump is a racist who appoints White Supremacists to his cabinet, including a secretary of war who belongs to a Nationalist religion that promotes racism, slavery and denial of rights to women and minorities. Pete Segheth is a bigot who is stripping Blacks and women from leadership posts in the military.

I admit feeling like it was time to give up on America.

But a 250th anniversary show hosted in Philadelphia by Rachel Maddow, Jen Psaki and Ali Velshi made me stop and think about remembering those who stood up to tyranny over the years to make a difference in this nation.

Here is that show. Please watch it. It will be worth your time.

The time to save America is now. Donald Trump is a seditionist, a criminal and an enemy of the state. It will be up to voters in November’s midterm elections to change the face of Congress to finally impeach him, charge him with his crimes and lock him up in a maximum federal prison until he dies.