He’s a frog.In an effort to paint their ‘opponents’ to be whatever Americans might imagine to be the worst image imaginable, both parties have made monsters out of good people and divided neighbor against neighbor. They justify their actions by telling themselves that when they ‘win’, Americans will see that their actions were reasonable.They are lying to themselves and to us. And while each claims to hold to the values of our Founding Fathers, they ignore those very Founders’ warnings against tribalism, money in politics, and a society where the very wealthy become like the nobility of Europe while the middle class and poor find it harder and harder to make ends meet.Frogs are valuable creatures whose young eat mosquito larva and who as adults eat other insects. They are also early warning devices whose sensitive biology reacts badly to pollutants in the water. Politicians have become less valuable and more of an impediment to a better quality of life in the USA. It is up to us to clean the cesspool that is Washington politics by getting more involved in the selection process before the media and big money decides what bad choices will be presented to us.Respectfully,C.
He’s a frog.In an effort to paint their ‘opponents’ to be whatever Americans might imagine to be the worst image imaginable, both parties have made monsters out of good people and divided neighbor against neighbor. They justify their actions by telling themselves that when they ‘win’, Americans will see that their actions were reasonable.They are lying to themselves and to us. And while each claims to hold to the values of our Founding Fathers, they ignore those very Founders’ warnings against tribalism, money in politics, and a society where the very wealthy become like the nobility of Europe while the middle class and poor find it harder and harder to make ends meet.Frogs are valuable creatures whose young eat mosquito larva and who as adults eat other insects. They are also early warning devices whose sensitive biology reacts badly to pollutants in the water. Politicians have become less valuable and more of an impediment to a better quality of life in the USA. It is up to us to clean the cesspool that is Washington politics by getting more involved in the selection process before the media and big money decides what bad choices will be presented to us.Respectfully,C.