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Dear Elected Representatives:
(A Letter from the People of America)
We ventilate our dwellings of many different kinds,
but may not have the sense to ventilate our minds.
Perhaps we fear we’d stir up something that has died—
some milk of human kindness that’s buried deep inside.
As kids sit scared in cages and countless forests burn,
you think you’re given license to hoard all that you earn,
protecting it from others who have need of it,
flailing around in luxuries of your money pit.
Yachts and cars and mansions should not buy peace of mind
when they leave our planet in a lethal bind.
Our plastic world is flailing. It chokes on its excess.
How can you turn your backs on its extreme duress?
We elect our rulers. They are not born to reign.
In return we must demand that they share our pain
and do not profit by it with cash for legislation
leading to their betterment and our consternation.
Look at where we’re going and look at where we’ve been.
Open up your minds. Let truth and justice in.
During your term of office who’s advanced as far as you have?
It seems the teeming masses did not profit as a few have.
We’re taking back our government, abolishing each clause
that gives you the entitlement to profit from the laws
you enact for self-interest. It’s time that you were outed
and all who vote against our interests were routed.
You defend bad judgement, support your corrupt clown.
Now all who stand behind him must also be brought down.
You overlook the obvious for motives all your own.
You’ve opened up the cage and the dove of peace has flown,
stalked by a bald eagle who feeds on those for whom
it should serve as symbol of something else but doom.
We must bring back our liberty, nobility and pride.
Resuscitate a country that many fear has died.
The truth is there before you, so open up your minds
to see there’s a solution for our present binds.
If you refuse to topple that one on whom you dote,
we’ll topple you one after one–when we go to vote!!
Prompt words today are ventilate, scared, stir, licence and earn.
From your keyboard to God’s ears! (Very well said!)
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Or at the very least, the ears of voters. I think the Senators are beyond our reach in terms of communicating in any other manner than votes. That’s all we have to bribe them with.
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I’m afraid you’re right. I’m relieved a bit that an impeachment effort has begun at last.
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So well said, Judy
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Perfect. I would sign it.
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“…so open up your minds….” I’m not sure that diehard Trump supporters have minds to open.
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It seems that each day that passes brings a new article of impeachment!
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I live in hope that these hearings are going someplace good.
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Me too.
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I think, though, that we need to be a little careful what we wish for. Much as I believe 45 is dangerous, etc., I’m not certain that Pence is much better. Ideally, the House will impeach and the Senate will convict, but the penalty will be that he cannot ever run for President again. Because that’s not likely to be completed before spring or summer, it would leave 45 in office for only a few extra months (over removal from office), it would leave not enough time for Pence to run on his own, and it would guarantee that 45 is out a year from now, in fairly short order after his conviction.
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Whatever happens concerning Trump and Pence, it is important to win back the Senate so the legislative branch gets back its power.
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Absolutely!!!
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Perfectly said!
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I’m just hoping enough Kentuckians have the good sense to get rid of Mitch.
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Fingers crossed.
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