I hope we get closure
I've lived through the Nixon hearings, the Clinton impeachment, and now this. Many of the republican strategists were shaping the party back in the late 60s-early 70s and whatever personal darkness they brought to their political careers have destroyed the republican party which produced Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, and Eisenhower and a number of outstanding, honorable Senators and Congressmen, governors and other politicians who put our country and people first. The longer the thugs in the background ran things, the worse the republican party got.
At this time, how many of us moderate Democrats are so far left just to balance the republicans who have moved so far right, not because we wanted to be out on the edge, but just because there isn't any other way to hang on to sanity. I can't be moderate. I can't be Third way. I can't be Green. I feel that to defend my country, I will have to be far more proactive than I ever planned, for the rest of my life. It isn't just social issues, or the economy, or sending troops to other countries to defend our access to commodities and fuel, or how I want to see my country represented as a beacon that doesn't torture, doesn't cage children, but offers hope and resources for the many. I don't understand how so many people can go ballistic over humane treatment of dogs, but turn away when humans are treated like flies or other vermin. I don't understand how people I thought were my friends, and I had fun with, changed into unrecognizable bastards who only think of their personal needs and absolutely no one else.
I hope that somehow after this impeachment process, however it goes, we can mend the wretched hole in our national fabric and work as a single country with common goals. If we allow the contaminated political processes to keep tearing us from our destiny, if we allow the rotten policy makers to keep playing their games, I don't see how The U.S.A. will be able to remain Camelot.
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