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I fail to see much of a difference now.

This is not personal towards you, so please don’t take it personally. I once felt (and not that long ago) EXACTLY as you do, and have the burden of having voted for Ross Perot to show for it. I felt regret for a LONG time that I did not heed words such as yours. But I look at it now, what would four more years of GHWB have bought us?

Not a reprieve, I feel confident in saying that.

The Right is complicit in this. Fully. Which as this recent election shows, means anyone who votes for them is complicit in the destruction of this country as well.

If that sounds harsh, it should. And I have been complicit in the past. But no longer.

EVERY damn one of those Republicans elected or holding office at a federal or state level in this country (with a few notable exceptions) sat on their damned hands and stuck a red rubber ball in their mouth when the extent of the fraud became obvious.

They could have stood up to be counted. And maybe they did and nobody heard about it. But someone would have heard about it. And if so, WE would have heard about it.

But they didn’t.

Those despicable, anti-American COWARDS who are either in the pocket of or compromised by Red China sat mute as if their tongues had been cut out.

If they had risen up, stood up, and said ANYTHING at all, there might have been a chance.

But they didn’t. And HERE WE ARE.

If someone like Devin Nunes, Jim Jordan, or anyone like them runs, I’ll vote for them. But I will never, ever cast a vote again for the likes of Mich McConnell. And I defended him for the past four years because of his work on the Judiciary. And that is it. Never again.

Never. If this election stands, our country is finished. Done. It may not end today, tomorrow, or in 20 years. But if it stands, this is the point that will cause it. I won’t be part of that.

As I said, there was nothing personal in that post before. You and I (and many others here) have a significant difference of opinion.

I am feeling low, and am angry and heartbroken for my country.

Problem is, if it were just me who felt this way, the Republican party might yet limp onwards for a while.

But it isn’t just me. I feel as if there are tens of millions of people just like me. If that is true (and I do believe it is) then the Republicans have lost already. They may squeak out a win and maintain control of the Senate. But it is not going to win in the long term.

Many of us will indeed pull that lever for the likes of Mitch McConnell or Lindsey Graham, but their election is going to be more like a severed head whose eyes open and close after the guillotine takes the head off.

If this election stands, and these people who are ostensibly on our side are completely and totally willing to go along with it (as they clearly are) then it shows they love themselves, their gravy train, and their privileged position far, FAR more than they love their country and what it used to stand for.

I am heartbroken by what I have seen. Doesn’t mean I won’t fight. It means I will have to fight against a larger group of politicians and ostensible American citizens to return to a Constitutional Republic which we NO LONGER HAVE. And the odds are stacked against it.

And that makes me feel physically ill. Positively sick.

I have my wife. I have my family. I will have my job, for a little while, at least.

But I don’t have my country any more.

If I want it, I am going to have to wrench it from the hands of people, including some I used to have to grudgingly accept as allies.

I would like to hope I am wrong. I pray to God that I am wrong.