God Bless America

Heaven knows, she needs it!  There’s an impeachment “trial” going on sans witnesses, of course.  It’s a David vs Goliath scenario and, yes, David is about to be annihilated.  Does anyone really believe that any Republican is open to the compellng evidence against their leader?  Of course not.  They’re too busy wiping his ass, hoping he’ll get them reelected.

Why?  They all took the same oath to uphold the Constitution and the rule of law and yet, they now bow to Trump and Putin.  The Republican Party?!  The same people who are supposedly the “patriotic” party, who wave the flag and claim liberals hate their country.  The Republican Party who refuse to bring a bill to the floor to outlaw foreign interference in our elections.

Are you watching the impeachment proceedings?  I regret to say I am not.  I actually wonder who is watching it?  After three years of thousands and thousands of lies, does anyone believe anything this guy and his minions say?  There’s a very good reason they don’t produce documents.  They’re obviously guilty of bribing a foreign county to interfere in our next general election.  Who doesn’t know that?

And what is their argument?  The Democratic Party has never accepted the results of the 2016 election, hence, the impeachment proceedings.  Which, of course, has nothing to do with the two articles of impeachment that they’re supposed to be arguing against.

They must be very worried about 2020 to invite foreign interference.  To refuse to pass laws making foreign interference illegal.  To pass laws making it increasingly difficult for every citizen to exercise their right to vote.

It’s already a foregone conclusion that the Republicans will stand lockstep with this President and enable him to continue to flaunt the rule for law and the Constitution.  With that vote, the legislative branch will become impotent.  They are endorsing the President’s obstruction of justice, his refusal to turn over documents or his forbidding of staff to testify.  The courts will be stacked with conservatives that will take decades to undo, if ever.

Is anyone out there worried about the future of our democracy?  I know, I know you’re probably thinking I’m way over the top and everything will turn out just fine.  Really?!  I don’t think so.  We’ve elected a highly unstable man and entrusted him with the nation’s nuclear codes.  A man who doesn’t listen to anyone with any sense, a man who never reads anything of substance.  A man who believes no one is smarter than he is. The same man who gets to decide when to set off nuclear bombs.

2020 will be one of the most important years in our country’s history.  It is not a year to sit back and see what happens. A lot of people did that in 2016, and we’re dealing with its aftermath.   Will there be a democracy left for our progeny?  It’s just as serious as that.

My days of rallies and marching are behind me, but, I did plenty of that in my youth.  Now, I’m grateful that I have enough resources to help elect citizens who understand the value of public service.  As with most Dems, I will support the top of the ticket no matter who it is.  Getting this madman out of the White House is the most important goal of 2020.

But, it is certainly not the only goal.  Nothing would make me happier than to get rid of Mitch McConnell.  Please Amy McGrath, DITCH MITCH!  And Lindsey Graham is right up there, too.  There is one hypocrite if ever there was one.  Leader of the Never Trumpers?!  Until….

Note to my kids:  Some of your inheritance is going to the preservation of our democracy for you and my precious grandchildren.  It’s a gamble but it’s all we’ve got.  God Bless America!