Disillusioned and Disappointed as I reach 1000 posts

[FightingIrish]

After more than six years of uncharacteristic activism I find myself sitting silently on the sidelines again just shaking my head. I marched, I protested and took very public stands that cost me clients and friends and even estranged some members of my family. Now the sheer absurdity of our national malaise seems to have overwhelmed me. I have lost my capacity for outrage and have the helpless feeling that I can no longer scream out loud. It wasn’t the two stolen elections or the insane war we could not stop. It wasn’t the parade of shocking revelations of our criminal conduct of that war that shames every American. It wasn’t the perversion of an inexplicable national tragedy that left me numb and speechless. It wasn't even the parade of fallen heroes that now scrolls by at a blurring pace. What has finally beaten me down is the realization that the congress we thought would save us stubbornly refuses to even seriously consider the only rational and legal solution to a problem that threatens us all and our future as a nation.

Many of the very representatives and senators now in office once thought impeachment was a fitting way to chastise a president who wasn’t forthcoming about the lurid details of his sexual transgressions. These same hypocrites now have no stomach for using the Constitution as it was intended. The plane is going down in flames but God forbid there be any mention of parachutes. These fools do not even offer a credible argument against impeachment other than to say this it just won’t happen. It is truly a dysfunctional democracy that denies itself the one available antidote to its systemic poisoning by a corrupt ideology and unchecked executive power.

I have heard very compelling reasons from people much brighter than I am, conservative and liberal alike, on why we cannot be content to just let the clock run out on the most destructive presidency in our history. Unfortunately these scholars are not the people we tasked last November with salvaging our republic. The duty of exercising the defense mechanism that our founding fathers built into our democracy falls to a group who simply cannot put country ahead of party or political ambition. All the feeble excuses our elected representatives offer for letting our decline continue are arrogantly telling the majority of the American people that somehow they know better or could care less.

As we approach the brink of another insane war under Dick Cheney’s puppet strings, I wonder if I have the will to get up and fight again. Until I see a congress that understands and acts on principle and the will of the American people, I’m afraid I may just watch.