Dear Fathers,
Where do I begin? My country is in dire straits because we elected a man who is hellbent on making our country over in his image. He is being aided and abetted by an assortment of lackies, loonies and just plain unqualified people who seem to love money more than they love my country.
I'm not sure why this happened although I know how it happened. We voted, one person, one vote for a man who promised to make it easier, better for us. Being an American is hard. According to the Constitution we are a nation of laws that all of us make through the people we elect to represent us, to do what we tell them we want. It used to be that nobody ever got everything they wanted, that's why it's called politics. But somewhere along the way it changed. Now we just want what we want, and we won't stop until we get what we want and we won't give in until we get it. We won't compromise.
Compromise has become a dirty word. Our leaders don't compromise because we don't want them to. We told them we wanted this man who would be king. We are lazy. Our representatives reflect that. Our representatives are lazy. Congress ceded power to make decisions to this man because we told them by our votes that more of us wanted this.
And now we have it. Even though he told us what he was through his past actions and words, we elected him anyway. Now that he is doing what he said he would we are shocked. Why? We got the leader we deserve.
We became lazy about government. We ceded power to people who love money and who think the rest of us Americans are less than. They think they are smarter than the rest of us because they have so much money. According to them, we didn't work hard enough or we are stupid enough to believe the lies we are told so we deserve to be governed by them.
We've made a mess and have to clean it up.
We have broken the pact you made, the government you worked so hard to make, that is emulated by so much of the rest of the world.
Benjamin Franklin famously said, "A republic, if you can keep it," in response to a question about the type of government established by the Constitutional Convention. It is our responsibility to maintain our republic and we failed miserably.
It appears we won't be keeping it. I am sorry.
