Beyond the tears and outrage, I don’t recognize my beloved country. In less than four years, the White House occupant has been impeached (albeit not convicted by a cowardly Senate). That same occupant refuses to act with leadership, ignoring his own administration’s experts. This has resulted in 100,000 deaths of U.S. residents in less than three months, with more to come.
He currently is gutting independent Inspector General positions designed to identify and eradicate government misdeeds, including cowing the esteemed Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, champion of the IG process. In the meantime, Sen. Mitch McConnell is installing young partisan federal judges to lifetime appointments.
Numerous government departments have been decimated and defanged: OSHA has yet to issue mandatory guidelines to protect workers, their employers, their families, and the public against COVID-19 (our own fruit processor plant for example). The CDC has been muzzled; its guidelines watered down. National coordination in this disaster is absent and states are left to fend for themselves. That means you and I operate without nationally coordinated expert advice. The list is endless.
Only my tears remain: I miss my beloved country; we must take her back. Vote like your life depends on it because it does.