Just another week in what has become the most disappointing exercise in democracy in history. The fact that a sexual predator sits in the oval office using the power of the presidency to advocate for the election of another sexual predator is astonishing. Even more astonishing are the closed minded voters in Alabama that have ignored the facts, formed baseless opinions, and, when confronted, utter hypocritical religion laced statements justifying their support of a man who has violated women and children.
The Democrats, albeit rudderless since the 2016 election, have taken the appropriate steps to sanction the offenders in their ranks. Both Congressman John Conyers and Senator Al Franken have done great things during their respective years of service, the former reaching icon status in the civil rights movement. Their transgressions do not take away the good they've done in public service but the inappropriate behavior of which both men have been accused require their storied congressional careers to come to an end. Without accountability there is lawlessness.
Accountability is not in the Republican vocabulary. The GOP leadership, sans the idiot Trump, is a shrewdly calculating bunch lacking both conscience and character. It's very possible Mitch McConnell has no intention of seating Roy Moore in the Senate should he win Tuesday's election. McConnell may well send Moore packing on the grounds of conduct unbecoming but such drama will be only for show. The true GOP intent is to make sure Democrat Doug Jones does not win even if the cost of attaining that goal requires condoning a pedophile for now. It's all about the end game for Republicans. If Moore wins, the Senate can reject him and rely on the Republican governor of Alabama to appoint a marginally less offensive Republican white male to fill the seat. Win/win for McConnell. Lose/lose for the country.
The wanton disregard the GOP has for the foundational tenants of American democracy is sickening. The justifications provided to excuse reprehensible behavior are abhorrent and the message such behavior sends to generations to come is that greed, ideology, and political victory reign supreme above character, accountability, and democracy.
There is a place in America for those that believe in conservatism. Yet those conservatives that identify themselves as members of today's Republican party or supporters of Donald Trump are anything but American. They are characterless, complicit, ideologues split between the rich leaders that are driven by greed and the disenfranchised angry masses looking to blame others for their woe. It's a toxic circle where the increasing wealth of the former is directly proportional to declining prosperity of the latter.
The masses would be advised to look inward and upward. You are accountable for your woe as evidenced by the human garbage you've abandoned all moral compass to follow.
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