by Robert Fischer<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s the weekend when I have time to think about everything that happened the past week. For some reason I use the time to make sense of things and frequently stew about what I have seen and read. It has become routine that just when you think that things can\u2019t get any worse or bizarre, they do. This, of course, has characterized the last four years of the Trump \u201cregime.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Like most of you, I grew up in a household where values such as honor, integrity, honesty, and morality were part of my life. My parents did not talk about these values, but they practiced them, and I learned at their feet. Simply put there was a right and a wrong and everyone knew it. Truth was not as you defined it or wanted it to be; it just was, and we knew it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Times like these make me wonder where I am. Whatever happened to the world I used to live? This past week was bizarre to a fault. The big news, of course, was the lawsuit against Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Arizona initiated by Texas and joined by 18 other \u201cred\u201d states requesting that the Supreme Court overturn the 2020 election to favor the president. Specifically, it alleged that the absentee votes cast in those four states were illegal and should be thrown out. Most of our grandchildren would probably know this to be baloney and unconstitutional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If this was not enough, 126 Republican members of the House of Representatives all signed on and supported the suit along with the president himself. Never mind that these people signed an oath to uphold the Constitution when they were sworn into office. This in spite of the fact that overturning the elections could very well have nullified their own election to Congress. As they say, go figure!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here in Georgia the Senate run-off campaign is going on 24\/7 with news, nasty partisan commercials, and an increasing number of out-of-state visitors hoping to make a difference. This week even Sarah Palin came out of obscurity to pitch her wild claims about how the election of Democrats will bring the end of the world. Republican television ads continually warn that the Californians are coming to the state to tilt the election. \u201cCalifornians,\u201d of course, is code for nasty, liberal, radical Democrats like Nancy Pelosi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bad feelings have run amuck. Fortunately, the Supreme Court upheld the Constitution and turned down hearing the case. Nevertheless, I\u2019m dismayed at the refusal of many of us to speak the truth about what has been happening. I still get appraisals that there is \u201cplenty of blame\u201d on both sides for what has happened. The plain truth is that since the November 3rd election, this turmoil, scandalous behavior, and nonsense has been brought on by the president and his Republican enablers. You can\u2019t pin this on the Democrats, the media, the elites, the communists, or the Black Lives Matter movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I would\u2019ve known this as a kid back in Dubuque, Iowa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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