It is hard to take for anyone that is a patriot.
If this is so, it reminds me of how I felt at the end of the Vietnam War. All that wasted time, money and most of all personnel for nothing. My comment then was don’t call for the next one, not me, not my children, not my friends no one. This is how I feel now about politics, don’t call. I don’t want to hear we were that close but they could just not prove it or some such. The die was cast when the IG got the one and only referral, on an unnamed official, declined. I said at that time, that was the prelude to the end. Nothing left now and the roadies clear the stage for the next round of Bull Shit by the Potomac. At best, I give the republic as we know or think we know it about ten years. It is nothing but a pot full of corruption ladling out propaganda to the masses. To any politician asking for money, in the words of Jimmy Buffet, if the phone does not ring it is me.