I am not one of those people who go through life angry. I rarely think of myself as angry at anyone. When I sense anger, it generally melds with disappointment. I decide I am more disappointed with what someone did than I am angry at them.

But today, I find myself angry. Not disappointed. Just angry. Disappointment has got me nowhere. Maybe anger will.

(By this way, this may become a long post, I am angry at so many people. Tomorrow, I think I may list the people that I am not angry at. You will be able to breeze through that one.)

Let’s go down the list, one by one.

(1) I am angry at Donald Trump. I am angry at him for making the world so much worse than it was (and it had a load of problems before he even came along). I am angry at the way he has torn the country apart politically, at the way he has threatened our democracy, at the way he gives bigots permission to be bigots, at the way he believes himself above the law, at the way he speaks to and about others, and so much more. I am not disappointed in Donald Trump, I am angry at him.

(2) I am angry at Vladimir Putin. I am angry at him for destroying what forms of democratic values were taking place in Russia, at the way he punishes his political enemies and anyone whom he deems a threat to him and his regime, and to his unwarranted invasion of Ukraine. I am not disappointed in Vladimir Putin, I am angry at him.

(3) I am angry at Hamas, its leadership and its supporters. I am angry at them for their unwillingness to admit to the legitimacy of Israel, for their disregard of the safety and welfare of their own people, and most of all for their sponsoring the October 7 attack on Israel with the death of 1400 Israelis and the capture as hostages of another 150 or so. I am not disappointed in them, I am angry at them.

(4) I am angry at Elon Musk. I am angry at him because of his purchase of Twitter, his weakening of Twitter’s already weak policing of hate speech, and his willingness in fact to engage in hate speech itself on the platform, which he renamed X. I also think Musk has too much money and too much power – between Space X, Twitter, Tesla, Starlink and other entities that permit him decide on the future of the U.S. space program, whether or not certain war zones can use communication devices and so forth – but I am not angry at any one for this, although I probably would be if I knew how to direct my anger.

(5) I am angry at Bibi Netanyahu and the members of his current coalition government for their lapse of security on the country’s Gaza border, on their failure to utilize their intelligence in monitoring activity in Gaza, for their riling up the settlers in the West Bank against the Arabs living there and supporting potential annexations, for their attempts to reconstruct Israel’s court system, and for their kowtowing to the country’s Orthodox religious establishment.

(6) I am angry at Joe Biden for not keeping to his promise to be a one term president and recognizing that his perceived physical age is going to mean that Donald Trump will become the next president, and not bowing out of the race early enough so that the Democrats can unite behind and prep an alternative candidate. OK, here I guess I am disappointed at Biden as well.

(7) I am angry at the Ayatollah Khamenei and his religious followers, who have been supporting, financially and otherwise, proxy groups around the Middle East to threaten and destablize Israel and the region. I am not disappointed in him.

(8) I am angry at politicians in Brazil, Argentina, and various African companies who have decided to emulate Donald Trump and falsely claim fraud in election results, threatening democratic institutions in their countries. I do not know them well enough to be disappointed in them.

(9) I am angry at virtually every Republican in the Senate and the House of Representatives for their stated or tacit support of Donald Trump, and their disregard to normal American governmental practices. I am disappointed in some, but not most of them.

(10) I am angry at right wing radio and TV commentators, who inundate their listeners and viewers with regular hate filled and inaccurate information about policies of those officials with whom they disagree. I am not disappointed in them.

(11) I am angry at the American voting public, which continues to support Donald Trump and dismiss Joseph Biden, so that every poll shows that Trump will win the 2024 election, base on the nonsense that Trump kept the world at peace, that Trump’s economy was much stronger than Biden’s, that Trump will control the border better, and the Republicans are better stewards of the national debt than Democrats, as well as ignoring Trump’s first term divisiveness, his continual lying, his 91 felony count indictments, his vindictiveness, his claims of election fraud, and so forth. And yes, I am disappointed with the American public.