It’s probably best to take any politician with a grain of salt, but if I had to take sides, I wouldn’t hesitate to choose the Democratic stance on most issues. I find that they align with my understanding of how governance and civic duty should be handled.
I know that, somewhere, moderate, sensible Republicans must exist, but their voice has been largely silenced by the creepy phenomenon that has been Donald Trump and the cloud of swamp gas that’s been hovering around him for nine years.
It’s difficult to explain what we’ve been seeing and hearing and going through. Most of us know it’s been exhausting and infuriating and even embarrassing at times, but most of all it’s been disheartening and confusing.
Many know we can do and are entirely capable of being better, but fear and ignorance prevail among enough of us to thwart momentum and distract us from the many tasks at hand. Often enough we are drawn down rabbit holes and brought low by “patriots” plugging hair-brained notions fraught with paranoia and old ideas, and fueled by misplaced religious fervor and a shameless network daring to include “Fair and Balanced” in its tag line. There is no cure for this, except some sort of awakening to the legitimate needs and voices crying out for redress and solutions.
Passing legislation has always been a bit of a slog, involving patience and plenty of give and take. It seems, anymore, or at least lately, elected representatives of a certain stripe are more interested in obstruction than finding a way to pass palatable legislation. When only one party is functioning as adults, then whatever is passed is liable to face the chopping block or be threatened with extinction when or if the dissenters, aka Republicans, somehow find themselves in power.
Such madness is not sustainable.
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