Perhaps, you know POTUS was in Phoenix on Friday for his Build the Red Wall political tour. As a parsed the title, I shook my head in disbelief. Why would a President ever use those terms? Obviously, no sane leader of the free world do

Build a Red wall? I equate the word red with STOP. Stop what? Voting rights? Equity? Ships from entering the Strait of Hormuz? Universities’ academic freedom? Money to public education? Funding of FEMA, Department of Forestry, and Lunch programs? Vaccine protocols? Pope Leo? Bruce Springstein?

Wall? Wall, for what reason? To keep our neighbors out? To keep the Congress polarized? To create a nation of isolation?

Our world has shrunk. If our planet is to survive, health, economic, and environmental issues must be addressed globally with collaboration, cooperation, and respect. As Ronald Reagan so aptly said, “Tear down the wall.” We can’t build walls high and deep enough to disease, climate change, and aggression out. We MUST build bridges, not barriers, if we want humanity to survive.

Finally, American leadership (?), if there’s such a thing, needs to end the mudslinging, name-calling, and reel in the tyrant toddler, who has the audacity to even attack the Pope and mock his peaceful agenda. Bridges–not walls.