Dear (Senator Thune and Speaker Johnson),
I am a veteran of the US Army who, until the past ten years
or so, took pride in caring less about
which party a candidate belonged to than what their record said they’d do. Recent
Republican politics have shown the party to be less interested in governing
than it is in taking over, which has altered my voting pattern.
Republicans have long taken pride in referring to themselves
as the party of law and order, yet seem perfectly willing to stand by while the
current administration runs roughshod over not only established law, but
Constitutional principles. Indeed, many of your peers encourage this behavior.
While Elon Musk and his unauthorized Department of
Government Efficiency try to cut not only the federal workforce but the levers
of government itself, where is your outrage? You appear to be, at best,
indifferent to a situation where silence indicates complicity.
What is your end game? Appearances indicate it is to gut the
democratic principles to create at best an autocracy and at worst a
dictatorship. If so, I, and millions of others, will use everything at our
disposal to fight you. I did not serve this country – nor did my father and
uncles in World War II – so you could walk away from the principles so many you
claim to honor died for. I will join any effort to relegate the Republican
party to the same historical footnotes as the Whigs and the Anti-Masonic party.
It’s already past time for you to honor your oaths to the
Constitution. If you ever intended to.
Dana King
Laurel MD
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