Stephanie Miller Exhibiting Rare Courage Among American Media

 The Stephanie Miller Show

If it were not for three hours of sanity, from 8:00 to 11:00 a.m. Central time each morning, I do not know how I would be handling this election and its results.  For me, it's on an AM radio station, WCPT in Chicago, which is the only radio station to which I now listen, since the music station I used to put on in the afternoon has CBS news on the hour.  The steadfast beacon of reason and hope through what I see as impending disaster for this country has been the Stephanie Miller show.  

Like anyone in the media who is opposed to Trump and everything he stands for, when a politician has declared his intention to use the political power of the Presidency to go after anyone who has opposed him, they have reason to be fearful.  And it has not taken long, on this side of the election, to see those who have lost the courage of their convictions.  We've been told that this election was the most consequential one of our lifetimes, that our constitutional democracy, no less, was the issue that was at stake, and that Trump was the biggest threat we've seen to our democracy since Adolf Hitler and Nikita Khrushchev.  

I didn't have to be sold on that argument, I was able to see it for myself, when he started his first serious run for office prior to the 2016 election.  But unfortunately, there are 74 million people in this country who are not only unable to see it, but are deliberately misinformed and deceived, and another 30 million who aren't well enough informed to know how they feel about it.  And now, after we have seen clearly and precisely that he is the greatest threat to constitutional democracy in America, and that he intends to destroy it and is systematically setting about to put together the people who will do it for him, we have some in the media who are tucking tail and running, and some who are being duplicitous and trying to curry favor with him.  

I'm more disgusted with them than I am with him, if that's possible.  People without real convictions are cowards.

Stephanie Miller stands to lose as much as anyone in the media on the left.  People sometimes look at me driving in traffic like I'm an idiot because I'm fist pumping or applauding some pithy, insulting thing they've said about Trump.  There have been mornings when I've laughed so hard, I've had to pull over and get out of traffic because I literally couldn't see or hold my composure well enough to drive.  Who'd have ever thought that political reality could be so terrifying and yet so funny at the same time?  

She is one of just a few media personalities whom I now trust to tell me the truth.  She hasn't backed down.  She's shared the same fears and feelings we all had when the election results were announced and the same sense of being lost, not knowing what to do, and wondering where we are headed.  But she's remain steadfast in her convictions, and her approach, the manner in which she delivers her message, and the truth she tells, and nothing has changed in spite of her clear awareness of any and all possibilities as Trump's administration settles in.  

When I tuned in and listened to her program the morning after the election, I cried.  Not because I was disappointed in the results, though I had cried about that earlier, but because I was listening to some truly genuine people who thought like I thought, and who were expressing the same feelings, in public, on the air, as I was feeling at that very moment.  I've been tuned in every morning since then.  I work in an environment that would get pretty hostile and uncomfortable quickly if I had her show on the radio in my office.  I have a hearing device and I can connect it to the live stream from my phone and listen that way, and no one else even knows.  

I've committed, as a private citizen, to resist the incoming administration in every way that a private citizen can resist.  So I'll support the local radio station that carries her broadcast, and respond to any request she has for help when the time comes.  Keep telling the truth, it is helping thousands of Americans get through each day.