I’ve often gone to bed at night these past two years with this one question in mind: Given not just our President, but his loyal body of conservative sycophants in Congress and the vast array of his MAGA supporters in the country, is the oft quoted phrase, “This is not who we are,” true, or have things changed so radically in my lifetime that, in fact, this is what we’ve become?
And then there was yesterday! Oh my Lord, thank goodness. It was not only a sweep at the top of the ticket, but also deep, deep, deep into the weeds to governmental positions up and down the ballot. …
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I’ve often gone to bed at night these past two years with this one question in mind: Given not just our President, but his loyal body of conservative sycophants in Congress and the vast array of his MAGA supporters in the country, is the oft quoted phrase, “This is not who we are,” true, or have things changed so radically in my lifetime that, in fact, this is what we’ve become?
And then there was yesterday! Oh my Lord, thank goodness. It was not only a sweep at the top of the ticket, but also deep, deep, deep into the weeds to governmental positions up and down the ballot. Repudiation! Joyous, thrilling, exciting, rejuvenating, and liberating with justice, honesty, decency, lawfulness, and basic, pervasive, essential humanity returning to these United States.
That crook and mentally disturbed creep at the top of the heap, destroying everything he touches had been castrated. “We the people,” had rescued our democracy from the clutches of the commander in thief. Insanity and authoritarianism if not fascism had been rebuked and defeated and we are on the road to recovery. Pride in country has returned and prevailed. Vitriol and self-dealing is on the run. Lies and pathology have succumbed. Honoring the Constitution has returned as our beacon. Teetering on the verge of collapse, democracy has been rescued and hope has returned to America. Perhaps now, once again, I can go to bed at night thinking, THIS is who we are.
Paul Rappoport
Wyndmoor
