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TO:  The Congress of the United States of America

Trump is not the problem.  You are.  He would not exist but for the glaring vile in our system you fail to fix.  You are incompetents mixed with cowards, as none of you address the system in any measurable way.  

You should be our champions. Instead you are our greatest shame.  You planted Trumps degraded mustard seed and you cultivated this degradation for decades and Trump is the full-blown result.  The full-blown result of your greedy power protecting incompetence.  A last-ditch effort to try anything but you.  Even a damaging blowhard, spoiled, self-centered, valueless idiot is preferred over you.  Do you ever think about how many thousands of Americans rained out of the sky blown to pieces for our greatness?  Wherever they are buried none of them face your way.  That is what you did to the dreams of our founders and the chills of the Star-Spangled Banner.           

This article is about the most costly and despicable conduct in human history.  That is the selling of greatness, one issue at a time, for pure selfish traitorous greed.  A Nation founded with clear intent.  With Equality, equal justice and decency foremost.  A spine-chilling effort of the finest kind.   Decimated by the Congress of the United States of America by disloyalty to the well-being of the people you were intended to govern.   In recent decades you have decimated the course of our Founders.  You have failed our well-being, succumbing to base human weakness.   For your own greed and power, you allowed a very few to trample your rule and assume rule that would protect the people.  Today, wealth rules you.  

Most of you don’t even know of the significance of the anti-trust legacy of Woodrow Wilson or Teddy and Franklin Roosevelt.  Within lies your obsequious disgrace and failure.  For this, our bounty is in the hands of a few and the quality of life for our people, and once revered noble course, have degraded disgracefully.  Our country crumbles in your presence, because of you.  The same economic parallels now exceed those that caused our revolution and founding.  A few with untold wealth in a sea of deprivation.  On thousands of fronts you have sold your decision and thus your souls as you fail and have failed.  An ant hill is built one piece of sand at a time.  A country is ruined one bad law at a time.  From phone and cable billing, to allowing unspeakable wealth, to allowing this wealth to not pay taxes as our land crumbles.  As the common citizen struggles depleting without value, the hours and days of their lives, you fail.  Then you give the mighty 1.3 trillion in tax breaks as a husband and wife are forced to work to the bone.  Blinding glaring wrong, as freedom is consumed by corporate citizen spying and regulation.  1% has half the bounty of America.  4 families enjoy more wealth than the bottom 50% of Americans.  Amazon does not pay taxes.  Our land is pursuing the economic lack of values of the third world.  Millions already live in this economic reality right here in America.  To be clear it is because of you, the Congress of the United States of America.  Better known these days as the protectors of wealthy and corporate rule.   

You, revoltingly and disgustingly sign law written by the corporate beneficiary, you don’t even read.  Because they gave you money.  I refer you to the blood of heroes.  Each line in these laws, a grain of sand degrading America.  And when you leave you often become the evil lobbyist that is the epitome of and end result of your complete failure to understand Constitutional intent.  And the totality of cost is the honesty of the chills we feel when we hear the music of our land.  A land that not too long ago was in the greatest pursuit of all:  fairness and equality for all people.  A very special government was in place struggling with this pursuit and you failed to guide.  Your departure was so extreme that normal course to correct may require once again, great upheaval.  You have failed beyond the red line where climate change or nuclear negligence or social disorder may make the corrections for you.  You failed in not seeing the greatest price to any land is the failure to understand the human weaknesses of greed of power.  For in their presence there is no common good.  You allowed the self-serving design of business to usurp our land.  For greed and power you allowed that this traitorous behavior is just fine.  Today, you are puppets, maneuvered by very smart people and money.   You have no value to our people.  As Greatness weeps, I refer you to all that you have failed.

                  Excerpt from Benjamin Franklin’s Final Speech at the

             Constitutional Convention in 1787 – from the notes of James Madison

“Sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its Faults, if they are such; because I think a General Government necessary for us, and there is no Form of Government but what may be a Blessing to the People if well administered; and I believe farther that this is likely to be well administered for a Course of Years, and can only end in Despotism as other Forms have done before it, when the People shall become so corrupted as to need Despotic Government, being incapable of any other.

I doubt too whether any other Convention we can obtain, may be able to make a better Constitution:  For when you assemble a Number of Men to have the Advantage of their joint Wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those Men all their Prejudices, their Passions, their Errors of Opinion, their local Interests, and their selfish Views. From such an Assembly can a perfect Production be expected?  It therefore astonishes me, Sir, to find this System approaching so near to Perfection as it does; and I think it will astonish our Enemies, who are waiting with Confidence to hear that our Councils are confounded, like those of the Builders of Babel, and that our States are on the Point of Separation, only to meet hereafter for the Purpose of cutting one another’s throats. Thus, I consent, Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure that it is not the best.

On the whole, Sir, I cannot help expressing a Wish, that every Member of the Convention, who may still have Objections to it, would with me on this Occasion doubt a little of his own Infallibility, and to make manifest our Unanimity, put his Name to this instrument.”

And thus was launched mankind’s greatest hope and pursuit.  A pathway to embracing human justice and a beacon for the well-being of mankind:   You, not Trump, long ago reset course in the most shameful, disgraceful, harmful way there is.     

Some of us get lucky and do have to fight in battle.  We come home.  We are left to speak on behalf of our hallowed dead.  I offer to you on their behalf, not on policy where it is normal to differ, but on the pursuit of common good where we all agree, that the spirits of our Founders and our Hallowed Heroes cringe with unspeakable revulsion at your glaring failure to lead.  The Torch was yours to hold it high..instead, due to your failures, humanity weeps.  You have the most special obligation on earth representing this great land.  Get your damn act together  

  

Bill McClellan