After the Broncos game on Sept. 14, I came upon a “When We All Vote” special episode of “The West Wing.” I thought it was now; it was actually first broadcast in October 2020. Always a “West Wing” fan but guess I didn’t have HBO then. After six years it seems we still have the same problems — plus new ones.
Why can’t, or won’t, Congress (and to a large degree our own Legislature) solve our problems?
I’m a big supporter of public education and admirer of Horace Mann. He gave a talk and said “Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.”
I’m of the greatest generation and I’m sorry, I apologize to my granddaughter, that we didn’t get it right. The world today, along with the United States, should be a much better place than it is. With wars, poverty, a $40 trillion debt, immigration, no fix to Social Security, the environment, and now AI, when will we stop digging? If the GOP does stay in the majority, do you really think they won’t approve that $5,000 “gift” to all American voters?
I’m tired of the bickering, infighting, partisanship, kicking the can down the road, and just the overall contempt many have against each other’s party affiliation. It’s always, “My guy is doing a great job, it’s those others that should be thrown out of office” philosophy.
It’s time for all voters to just vote against any incumbent. Period. The only way we are going to get Congress to do its job, be the senior partner in running the government, is to get all new members and hope they start doing something and solving (or at least attempting to solve) our problems. Checking the executive. Try something; if it doesn’t work or work as well as we want, revise it.
They have two years to get it right. If nothing is solved in two years, we vote all them out and the rest of the remaining second third of the Senate and try again. We have to stop letting members of Congress see fundraising and how to get reelected as being their primary job.
We can send a message. Ballots come in three weeks. Will you join me?
JH Thompson, Ogden