“Together, we will usher in a bright new future of wonder and wealth.”

(Donald J. Trump, Utah, December 4, 2017)

In true Orwellian fashion, 45 has reduce the national monuments of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante to mere shadows of themselves, exposing them to pillage for corporate profit, and announcing it as “public lands will once again be for public use.”

Image fro Flickr by Scott Jones, Bears Ears National Monument

Together? What part of this is “together”? Not in the name of the Navajo Nation, which is moving forward with a lawsuit. Not in the name Wilderness Society, which by the close of business Monday evening, had filed a lawsuit on behalf of eight environmental groups. Not in the name of the activists and commonplace folk who showed up in Salt Lake City today to protest. Not in my name. Probably not in yours. This is not together.

This is the largest elimination of public land in this country’s history. Or, as the retail company, Patagonia, stated on their website today:

captured from the Patagonia website 12/4/2017

This “together” actually means the masses of people are silenced, siloed into enforced passivity, run roughshod over. This new future you call bright is not one that we all will share together.

Let’s cut the Orwellian doublespeak: You destroy wonder you in order to accumulate wealth for the very few.

Shame on you.

Again.