We Can, We Must

It might be considered a sickness.

Immediately following our regular Wednesday 0530 high-intensity spin set I sped back to the home office to turn on the live coverage. And not the Tour de France. 

Despite my frustratingly finicky, sporadic wifi signal and its propensity to provide greasy and pixelated resolution, I was quickly engaged with Robert Muller’s testimony to congress. The sickness referenced above is my (undiagnosed) fanatical obsession with truth, our Constitution and the Democracy on which it stands. I missed the importance and impact of 1974 when Tricky Dick was facing a humiliating decision, this oversight due to my gross political apathy at the time. The same was true in 1988 when Bubba Clinton  got caught with his pants down in the oval Office. My response to both was, that even if it cites sitting presidents, if one does the crime, one does the time. For the simple fact that NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW. 

Nixon wasn’t.

Clinton wasn’t.

And trump isn’t. 

As hard as his racist and morally corrupt minions try to spin it, the (so called) leader of the free world and our commander-in chief, is a fraud. I wish we had the tapes and I wish we had the stained dress, the smoking guns that plugged both Dick and Bill. We don’t. 

What we have is a 450 page report and now congressional testimony from its author. Nothing is settled, nothing determined and nothing even close to a recently fired Glock 9 has been introduced as evidence. Republicans are claiming vindication, 45 has already tweeted his go-to lie as the Democrats prepare for their next strategic round of discovery, jurisprudence code for A Hail Mary. 

It will come to this. It will come to what it has always come down to. Our current administration is corrupt. Politicians are bought, owned by the greedy wills of big business. Our most recent election was hacked by a hostile adversary. War is big business as is oil, drugs, private prisons and deregulation of policies designed to protect the integrity of our environment, the health of our citizens and the rights of women, gays, people of color, seniors and vets. Gold is the new God, and he is white, evangelical and with criminal herrenvolkial interests. 

It will come down to our vote. 

Mueller can't do it. Congress can't and the greed and lies of this administration are in felonious dissent. But we can. We can vote for the morality of our constitution and the integrity of our democracy. We can make America honest again. 

We will. We must.