Was there ever a time when people didn’t get hurt by the hardball politics involved in moving legislation through Congress? When the layfolk weren’t caught in the middle, slipping through the cracks, going without a voice because their representatives in one chamber or the other were farting around, too busy going low or trying to outsmart the opposition, always calculating, always playing chess and maybe even trying to ensure they could pin the blame on those across the aisle and emerge from the brouhaha smelling like roses?
Anymore, there’s too much at stake to engage in this sick, highly consequential brinkmanship. We’re all tired of the weakness and cowardice and the appalling lack of principles. There has to be a baseline of commonality. How about we set the bar really low and all get on the same page with regard to Donald Trump?
Can Republicans actually not see that he is… let’s put it mildly… unfit? Are they so afraid, in so deep, that they can’t summon the courage to admit they’ve compromised themselves by backing the wrong horse? I hope we haven’t reached the point where even Republicans with a head on their shoulders are prepared to go down with the ship.
This giant ruse can only be sustained for so long. In the meantime, unconscionable harm is being done.
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