Politicians:

Do your job

Foremost amongst the defining features of President Trump’s four-year reign were those demonstrating his contempt for our founding democratic principles.

Any position or opinion in conflict with is own was mocked and treated as an impudent impediment to his personal whims rather than part of the governing body. His relentless desperate attempts to usurp his election loss has been the most damaging of those transgressions.

Though his oval office exit did deny him the time required to establish his absolute kingly immunity from any potential egregious act performed as president (a dream currently being addressed at the Supreme Court level), he and his minions’ ability to accept that loss has rendered our entire voting process interminably suspect. All election results will not be questioned (when it suits) and refuted. Kari Lake will not be the last to use this same playbook.

Too many of us have decided to throw civility to the wind. We have allowed politicians to use us as pawns to serve their self perceived greatness occasionally to the extent of near deification. These cultists who can overlook the hateful and narcissistic elite of the world ingratiate themselves at the expense of those they “represent” will never sit well with those who feel miscreants need to be held accountable for their actions and their intentional sins rightfully punished.

Are we not tired of loud mouths substituting for real dialog and effective governance?

A democratic nation will not survive if there are no consequences for the use of lemmings and lies by pompous politicians to evangelize themselves. We are all responsible for the consequences if we do not ignore that maladroit DEM/REP square and insist that the elected officials that we have independently vetted sheath their partisan swords and do the hard work of doing their job.

Gary Verst

Bowling Green