I want incumbent Robert
Menendez to lose his Senate Race. Is that so hard to say?
I want Representative Duncan
Hunter to lose his the 50th district of
California, but 538 thinks he has an 8 in 9 chance of being
reelected.
I want Chris
Collins of New York's 27th district to lose, even
though he won't.
If Andrew
Gilliam is guilty, and there is serious reason to believe he
might be, I want him to lose as well.
I want the President
to lose reelection.
But what I really want is for voters to
stop electing corrupt candidates.
The terrifying fact: all those people
seem to be on track for (re)election (except the President who is not
on the ballot this fall).
Corruption is unforgivable, even though
the Supreme
Court appears either unable to understand what corruption is,
or doesn't care. Citizens need to demonstrate that we know what it
is, and even if we can't imprison violators of communal respect, we
can at least remove them from office. Voters need to send a message,
that they will not accept a violation of the public trust.
I sense that most voters disagree with
me. In this particularly partisan time, voters would rather a
staunch ally, regardless of how stained, as long as they commit
themselves to equality, justice, and a political party's agenda. I
hope you see the mistake. How can a Representative, Senator, Governor, President, or a Supreme Court Justice be dedicated to those
first two principals, if they are corrupt (and for that matter, how
can they be dedicated to the first two principals if they are really
committed to the third?)
One imagines voters tolerate corruption
because they see the other side as equally complicit. As the long as
the other party accepts corruption, we will too, they excuse. The
only solution, one party must take a stand, like the Democrats did on
sexual assault. The declared it intolerable, and demonstrated their
commitment to this edict by pressuring Al Franklin to resign, even
though he was a prominent and dedicated Democrat.
If the Democrats committed to stamping
out corruption, they could use it as another prick upon the
President, his cronies, and his judicial nominees. If the
Republicans committed to ending corruption, well, they'd have to
remove the President first...
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