Say Goodbye to the Rule of Law

I sit here with my fingers on the keyboard and am wondering if expressing myself has any value at all.  I have just watched the Sunday morning News analysis programs (Meet the Press and ABC’s This Week) and I am filled with a dread and despair that is new for me.  I have always felt that at some level the citizenry of America was smart enough to discern truth and facts from the blizzard of disinformation we hear every day from the administration, the Republican Congress and the right wing media. 

I am not what some might call a radical liberal.  I am a believer in truth and in factual evidence.  What I hear from the right wing media, the Republican Congress and the Trump administration, with a few exceptions, is exactly the opposite.  If you saw the appearances by Senator Ron Johnson from Wisconsin and Rep. Jim Jordan, neither one would answer the very basic question posed as to whether it was right or wrong to enlist either Ukraine or China to investigate the Bidens.  In the case of Johnson, he raged on, and wouldn’t be stopped, about all the injustices Trump has suffered since he was inaugurated and never answered the question; and Jordan simply queried over and over whether Stephanopolous actually believed what the President said about China. Both never answered the same question, even though both Todd and Stephanopolous repeatedly asked them whether they thought it was proper to solicit a foreign country’s help to affect our elections.  It is incredible that these smart human beings are so deluded with debunked conspiracies and lies that spew forth from their allies that they cannot accept anything that aligns with proven fact and the results of extensive investigation that has already proven their beliefs to be false.

What we are witnessing is the dessication of our institutions and our democracy.  What we witnessed this morning is the absolute abandonment of our Constitutional precepts, values and the oaths of  office taken by a very large segment of our elected leaders.  Their fear of attack on them by ‘their’ President has exposed them for what they are: sycophants who are more concerned about their party than the institutions and rule of law enshrined in the American Constitution.

Their defenses of what has been exposed by the Whistleblowers, the WH released transcripts, the texts released yesterday, the corroborated evidence presented so far have been weak, fractured and frankly abandoned when they don’t immediately get traction.  In reality there is no defense for what we have seen over the past two weeks.

The evidence will continue to come out, eventually Trump will be impeached, and the Senate will acquit him…..unless, and this is a tragically remote possibility….the public can somehow be brought along to see the nefarious nature of what Trump has done to our democracy and prevail upon their elected representatives to do the right thing.  More likely, the Republican toadies in the Senate will lie down in supplication to their ‘leader’ while abandoning their sacred oath to support the Constitution.  And then they will have to live with the history they will have created.

At the end of the trail, next November, we, alone, will have a final chance to redeem ourselves.  I can only hope it won’t be too late and that there will still be a majority of patriots who honor the incredible sacrifice of the founding fathers of this great nation, and will elect a President and a legislature that will rebuild the greatness we once had and so carelessly surrendered.