MY REACTION to the Demonrats' takeover in the House is one of distress and of great disappointment in the perspecuity and both the ideological and moral compass of far too many Americans.
While not a Demonrat tsumani, aka "wave", such was of little comfort to me. For me, the takeover exposed our nation's Achilles' heel. In effect, too many voters embraced Demonrat incivility, mendacity and political extremism, placing in serious question Americans' faithfulness to traditional values and responsible, virtuous government. (Lesson UNlearned yet again: one doesn't consciously enable or otherwise reward bad behavior & extremism--but that's precisely what millions of American voters did. So, is Demonrat misconduct the new standard? And why not, especially if the party isn't appropriately chastised for its grossly unacceptable misbehavior, extremism?)
The takeover in the House is especially disappointing in light of the Demonrats' unprecedented and relentless thuggery, self-serving shamelessness, heavy-handedness and brazen attacks on the moral fabric and standards of decency in the country over the last two years. In truth, voters, albeit by often slim margins, effectively anointed this inexcusable Leftist misconduct, thus validating such misbehavior in the future. The terrible truth is that erstwhile intolerable and unvirtuous public behavior has now been vindicated by a disturbingly large portion of the American body politic. And that should properly frighten us all.
Following the takeover, when I heard Pelosi's victory speech which amounted to the usual cynical & mendacious claptrap about working across party lines, being transparent, and adhering to the US Constitution, blah, blah, blah, I shook my head in despair and disbelief, but also in wonderment as to how such shameless lying, an art form on the Left, has been so easily excused, unrecognized, ignored or dismissed by those voters who enabled the Demonrat takeover. Are most Americans no longer deserving of virtuous leadership? The short answer is "yes".
Will we survive this voter rejection of our basic beliefs, values and standards of public conduct? A few timely quotes which may help us answer that question:
"Our Constitution is made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams
"Tolerance is the last virtue of a dying society." Cicero
"Tolerance is the virtue of a man without conviction." G.K. Chesterton
