It is time to renew America. It is time to renew decency in America. It is not just the president who has assaulted decency in America, although his levels of indecency are beyond my darkest imaginings just a few short years ago.
It is the indecency of the Republican Party that has decided it can’t actually win elections so they have to do all that they can to keep people from voting or having their votes counted. Indecent.
It is the indecency of the recent Supreme Court Justice, Amy Coney Barret, who could have had the decency to say that she would decline to be nominated until after the election and then gladly receive the nomination if offered to her. Indecent.
It is the indecency of the Republican Party in Wisconsin who gerrymandered the state so they can’t lose control regardless of the actual vote count for their legislature. Indecent.
It is the indecency of Red State governors sacrificing lives do COVID-19 so they can have businesses open and pretend that everything is back to normal when things are becoming worse now than at any time in the course of this terrible pandemic. Indecent.
It is the indecency of the Republican Senate that voted almost unanimously not to impeach the Republican President despite clear and overwhelming evidence that he obstructed justice and blackmailed an ally to produce dirt on a political opponent. Indecent.
It is the indecency of the president who dismantled the pandemic task force and thus had no national response to the biggest pandemic in 100 years. Indecent.
It is the indecency of a Republican Party that knows - and states privately and off the record - that their president and party leader is bat shit crazy, but never cross him out of fear, so they toss the lives of Americans overboard so that the ship of their careers can sail for a few more years. Indecent.
It is the indecency of the avid Trump Cult proudly parading their racism, misogyny, anti-science, and bigotries of all kinds. Indecent.
It is the indecency of a president withholding Federal aid to states that didn’t vote for him. Astonishingly indecent.
It’s time for America to renew America. It’s time for America to renew decency in America.
