What I witnessed in Congress last week only solidifies what I have been talking about for a long time. That the government we now have, is threatening the democracy we once knew. Trump would not have been impeached, if he had come onto the Senate floor and confessed to what he was charged with. The trial was over before it started and the whole exercise was a waste of time and money. It was a foregone conclusion brought by politicians, whose political future is more of a threat to them than any justice.
The day the Supreme Court ruled that corporations could donate as much money as they wanted to political campaigns was the day politicians went from winning a seat in Congress to buying a seat in Congress. You need no longer be liked or even respected to win a seat in Congress, you only need to be able to kiss up to the party and the corporations who will buy and sell you, and then you will be rewarded.
I have never donated one penny to a political campaign and never will. If you can’t win by your own good actions and your well intended attempts to be honest and forthright then you deserve to lose. You can’t buy any of those attributes, you have to earn them. I was always a conservative in politics but the party that supported that way of life got lost in the smoke of Washington. I didn’t leave them — they left me. It is my hope that enough Republicans will now have a bad taste in their mouth they can’t swallow and will now strive to bring the party of Lincoln back to what it really stood for. Then I, too, will cheer them on.
Mike Holst
Crosslake
