Friday, July 26, 2019

My letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell--With all Deliberate Speed

Senator McConnell: I remain shocked and incredulous that you refused to send two bills to the floor which would shore up our electoral security at this most threatening time. I think you have shown a side of you that is unethical, self centered and one who does not give a damn about this nation except to secure your own next election and power. This time you will ​not​ secure it. This above any other obstruction you have done remains the most egregious and almost, I dare say, treasonous.

We have been told many times by our intelligence services and now Republican Special Counsel Robert Mueller how Russia, a nation you and Republicans thought an adversary for so long, has been involved in breaching this nation's democratic electoral system the essence of what our democracy is all about. They will continue to do so both here and in Western Europe, Australia and all free democracies of the ​world.​

Russia does not give a damn about our nation, Trump or you except to use you as compromat useful to their goals and that is sowing division among us and electing a president Trump who takes the authoritarian Putin's side over ​the​ best information of our national intelligence agencies. Putin has method to his madness and that is to recoup what Russia during Gorbachev's Glasnost (a freeing up of Russia's autocratic norms) lost. Communist Russia fell and lost its empire. It lost the Eastern European nations like Poland, Romania, Hungary and Bulgaria, ​East Berlin, ​the Baltic states of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia, and more. Putin, a former KGB agent, wants his empire back, the glory it would bring to him and wants Russia on top of the international power pile. He is using his best efforts at subverting this nation, the crown jewel of democracy by sowing extremist nationalist discord, electing an American president Trump who kisses Putin's ring, dismembering NATO and more. He is doing this not only to us but to all western democracies. The Republican Party, you in particular and, of course, Trump, are helping him do this.

Moreover, Steve Bannon's original wish for supporting a populist right wing white racist autocrat Trump and his power broker Putin is to make America white again. His nefarious goal is part of the strategy too. You by not allowing election security legislation are helping all of Putin's goals. Please, quoting Joseph Welch at his finest moment during the Army/McCarthy hearings against phony red bating by Joseph McCarthy "At long last​, sir,​ do you have no sense of decency left?"

I, with intensity, ask you as part of a Republican Party which used to be against Russian domination to bring these pieces of legislation to the floor to secure our national elections which at this moment and beyond Russia is trying to subvert and are at risk. Our nation and all democratically elected nations are in peril. If you can do nothing else for our democratic humanity do that. We are all in danger including you! I believe you will lose your 30 year seat in 2020 because you are now on the wrong side of history! Bring this election security legislation to the floor with all deliberate speed before it is too late!​​

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