It's the end of the world as we know it

Normally, Inauguration Day is a day for celebration in America. It is is a day for feeling patriotic, for feeling proud that we are able to have a peaceful transition of power, no matter how contentious the election was before it. Today, I am  able to feel none of those things. Today, I only feel sad and apprehensive. I'm sad that Americans got it so wrong in selecting Donald J. Trump to be our next president. And I am truly apprehensive about what the future holds for America with Trump in charge.
   There's so much wrong with Trump that it's hard to list it all here. The man is an incurable narcissist and a liar. He's a man with no core beliefs of his own. He's willing to tell Americans whatever they want to hear, with no intention of ever keeping any of his promises. In short, he's a con man. And we were so desperate for change that we actually bought into his spiel.
   But it's worse than that. Trump is ignorant. He's the least educated president in the history of the nation. Trump has no working knowledge of domestic issues or economics. He has no knowledge of foreign affairs. And worst of all, he apparently has no knowledge of or respect for our Constitution. This, of course, raises the question: How can he be expected to support and defend the Constitution when he obviously has never read it?
   Trump's defenders point out that all he needs to do is surround himself with good people to help guide him. It worked for Reagan, they say, and it can work for Trump. Here's the key difference: Ronald Reagan was a man of deep principle. He actually took his job seriously and strove to find the right people to advise him. Apparently, not so with Trump. Look at his Cabinet picks so far. They either know nothing about the departments they've been tapped to lead (hello, Ben Carson), or tthey're philosophically opposed to those departments (here's looking at you, Rick Perry). This is utter madness.
   I suppose it's true that we can survive Trump, just as we survived George W. Bush before him. The problem is that Trump himself is such an X-factor. You're never quite sure what he's going to do. Hell, I'm not sure HE even knows what he's going to do. And his tendency to follow his gut instead of listening to his advisers means that he might get us into a sticky situation with no plan for getting us out of it. One thing is for sure. Trump has changed the political landscape forever. Let's just pray that our country is capable of surviving that change. As of this moment, I have my doubts.