I have been an avid observer of politicians and politics for a long time now and I thought that I knew the game well and was well aware of how both operate.  Hello!  Enter Mr. Donald J. Trump; the wakeup call has been all but devastating!  The things that Mr. Trump is doing in the open without making the slightest effort to conceal them and all the while the American Republican-led congress is not only remaining silent but is enabling him is amazingly mindboggling!  It is surreal!  If you think that this article sounds like a repeat of many of the other articles that I have written since Mr. Trump was elected you are not at all off course.  Far too often since he took office, I feel like I have been somehow caught up in some weird version of the movie “Groundhog Day.”  And believe me, I hate it but that’s the way that it is.

It is extremely hard to believe that this is happening in America and that those that we elected to represent and lead us are idly standing by and allowing all of the things that this country has worked so hard to achieve be tossed away as if it were so much trash rightfully destined for the trash heap.  I find myself struggling to effectively articulate my feelings with regard to what is happening but I see what I am feeling in the expressions on the faces of many of the cable news hosts and their broadcast contributors.  What is happening to us and where are those politicians who are supposed to be providing the checks and balances to prevent this exact thing from happening as the result of an out of control president?!

I do not believe that the title “politician” automatically gives one the right or permission to lie and mislead people and claim that it is a part of the job.  Although a lot of people, and no doubt those politicians, would disagree with me on that issue, certainly they would agree with me that it does not entitle them to be spineless and weak-kneed to the point of completely abdicating their responsibility to America, her citizens, and the constitution that they swore to defend against all enemies foreign and domestic?!  Where are our statesmen!  How is it possible for those who are standing by silently, and in many cases enabling this president, to look at themselves in the mirror and not be repulsed by what they see?!

With the two latest resignations of those who work for Mr. Trump, those of Secretary of Defense James Mattis and Brett McGurk – special presidential envoy for the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS, it is abundantly clear that Mr. Trump’s actions are not only having a destabilizing effect in America but throughout the world.  The fact that this Republican-led congress is allowing Mr. Trump to conduct himself in this manner without doing anything to mitigate his inappropriate conduct and whimsical, erratic leadership exposes these politicians to be exactly what they appear to be, spineless and weak-kneed.

America is in a very vulnerable and dangerous situation.  It is obvious that our elected politicians are aware of this because those who are not running for reelection are very boldly talking about it.  It is far past time for our politicians to only talk about America’s problems and strongly suggest that we address them while slinking away to retirement.  It is time for bold and serious action on their part right now that will prevent Mr. Trump from pulling them, all of the American people and, perhaps, a large percentage of the world even further down that rabbit hole than we already are!  It is time for them to stop viewing lying and misleading their constituents as simply pabulum to help assure that they will get their votes.  Grow a backbone congress!  And rid yourselves of that whatever it is that you refer to as knees that – like a liquid, takes the shape of anything that it is poured into, and get some real knees!…  Please!

Eulus Dennis – author, Operation Rubik’s Cube and Living Between The Line