There are people with conscience. Just remember to look in the Democratic Party.
Beto O’Rourke, who attempted a run at the presidency and barely lost to the Zodiac Killer lookalike, wrote a moving article Thursday in Medium (medium.com, or on the app) titled, “Is this the end of the last best hope?”. He reminds us of what stands before us today, and moving forward. He talks about how the Senate has effectively created a monarchy.
Looking at so much of the rest of the world and almost the whole of human history, it is clear that without the Constitution we would have suffered the rule of men and not enjoyed something approaching the equal protection and promise of just laws.
Today, two hundred and thirty-three years after its adoption, it has been replaced by something else.
“Functionally a monarch,” is how Presidential historian Jon Meacham described [the Dotard] earlier this week, after a feckless Senate majority refused to call witnesses, subpoena documents, or hold anything remotely resembling a fair trial after his impeachment by the House.
He points out that the Senate (who cried “Rule Of Law” endlessly in 1998) chose the rule of men by a 52-48 vote. “Only some men, to be sure. Those powerful enough, shameless enough, enabled enough, to live above the law.”
It’s a good read, estimated at six minutes, and it should give all of us pause, and maybe a way to move forward. He writes, “Despite the outcome in the Senate and this darkest of moments for our country, my faith is still in the optimism of the founders.”