Washington Republicans continue to pound Secretary Clinton. After they failed to come up with a smoking gun in a recently ended congressional investigation led by Republican Harold Watson “Trey” Gowdy (R-South Carolina) into what happened in Libya under Secretary Hillary Clinton’s watch; which, by the way, cost tax payers millions of dollars, Republicans immediately launched an investigation into her so called email scandal. And when the FBI thoroughly investigated this so called scandal and made a determination that completely cleared Secretary Clinton of anything that warranted a criminal indictment, this angered Republicans and they opened a second and new investigation into this so called email scandal that is still ongoing.
This time, however, the new investigation is seeking to determine whether or not Secretary Clinton lied to the FBI during the first investigation or, in high hopes of Republicans behind this new witch hunt, to find anything else that might be there that will negatively impact her run for president and help their nominee, Donald J. Trump to win the White House. But now – just to help keep things fresh and interesting, a new Republican hatchet man is at the helm; it is Representative Jason E. Chaffetz (R-Utah).
Wake up America! Washington Republicans are hell-bent on putting Donald J. Trump into office! Washington Republicans and other elected Republicans around the country have definitely lost their way. They are so focused on maintaining party unity and supporting the Republican nominee that they are willing to sacrifice America and the Republican Party as we now know it. Donald J. Trump has mesmerized the Republican Party and of course he is on board with this. Now that he has succeeded in mesmerizing Washington Republicans, he intends to keep them under his spell until he can, with their help, do the same to Republicans throughout America.
His task is being made easier because the great majority of us look to our leaders to make informed and reasonable decisions and point us in the direction that we should take. Unfortunately, too often we accept those decisions without the requisite and thorough vetting that is warranted. And with the Washington Republicans being under his Trumpism spell, Republican leaders – if not openly endorsing Mr. Trump and his views and vision as to how America should move forward, are tacitly endorsing him and his views by way of their silence. The silence of Republican leaders is devastating! It is devastating to America and it is devastating to the Republican Party. Wake up Republican statesmen and leaders! Stand up for America! Stand up for the Republican Party and true conservatism! Dig deep and somehow find the courage to fight for the survival of the Republican Party and assure that we preserve America’s two party system! A strong two party system with each party being capable of wielding power will keep American politics healthy.
As voters – whether we are Democrats, Republicans or Independents – we must realize that we have a role to play in keeping our political system healthy and operating at its highest level. In order to do our part we must constantly elect politicians who are sincere, dedicated to their sworn duty and who will always put the wellbeing of America ahead of their political ambitions. Of course we will not always elect these kinds of politicians and that is why we must always hold whomever we elect accountable. And when we discover that we have elected someone who places their political ambitions above their sworn duty then we must replace them. And the only way that we can do this is by staying informed and always doing our civic duty, which includes voting.
I have always been open about the fact that I am a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat but I have also been open about the fact that there are those who are not Democrats who have great ideas and meaningful input that can make America even greater than it is already. America does not need to be made great ‘again’ as Donald Trump is advocating; because it has never stopped being great! We neither need to be divided and pitted against one another nor do any of us have to be demeaned or deported without due process in order for America to be great!
These are things that Mr. Trump and many of his supporters are for some reason advocating as a necessary prerequisite for America to be, what they define as, ‘great again.’ I am convinced that most Americans do not agree with Mr. Trump and these supporters when they imply that America is no longer great and that it cannot be what they perceive as ‘great again’ without deporting millions of hardworking people and building a wall to keep people out. There is no doubt that prospective immigrants must respect America’s borders and that we must have meaningful discourse that will facilitate legal immigration and stem the tide of illegal immigration and hopefully ultimately stop it altogether.
Those who are concerned about illegal immigrants and illegal immigration and believe that something has to be done about it have a legitimate concern. What they must not do though is to buy in to the message of fear and divisiveness and blame the immigrants for everything that is currently going wrong in America that Donald Trump is peddling simply for political gain and self aggrandizement. Given the existing political situation surrounding America’s immigration policy and our politicians’ inability to effectively address it, many people are afraid and acting out of fear in making their determination as to whom they want to occupy the Oval Office.
Mr. Trump knows and understands this and is exploiting it to the fullest. Those who are caught up in Mr. Trump’s cycle of fear must find the strength to extricate themselves from it. Then they should take a deep breath, relax and get informed before they cast their ballots. That way they will be more likely to vote based on reasonable rationale rather than their darkest fears.
Eulus Dennis – author, Operation Rubik’s Cube and Living Between The Line