by Diane Rufino, Sept. 14, 2018

This is my latest meme. And I’m serious about its message.

DC politicians make me sick. They are quite literally the most wretched of human beings. They (mostly Democrats, let’s face it) refuse to act in the best interests of the country or of its citizens, but rather, act for pure political purposes only – for the benefit of their party, for the political power that its political elites will enjoy.

Why else would they make it their key political objective to impeach a president who has worked tirelessly to Make America Great Again. And it’s true, he has made America great again; he has the intuition, the insight, the political saavy, the conviction, and the dedication to enact policies to benefit the country and its people. His goal is not to redistribute American’s wealth and success to the rest of the world, but to keep and protect that wealth here. The other party cannot say the same. The president, despite the character flaws greatly exaggerated by the other side, has the decency to honor the promises he made on the campaign trail. His primary goal each day is to honor those promises to return to the people the grand notion that elected officials serve the people and that government works for them.

In what sensible universe would anyone make it their key political objective to take this honorable president out of office? The only answer that makes sense is that President Trump is pursuing policies that are so completely and directly in opposition to the agenda of the Democratic PARTY… not necessarily the people who identify as Democrats, but of the PARTY. Extrapolating from that, the only answer that makes sense is that the Democratic PARTY does not want the federal government to put America first.

The Democratic Party offers no path or vision for our country other than “impeach Trump.” In other words, the Democratic Party’s plan is to reverse the path of the Trump administration — to increase taxes, to increase burdensome regulations on businesses, to roll back the policies that have created hundreds of thousands of good jobs (jobs paying much more than minimum wage), to prostrate ourselves to world leaders and to give them support from the American taxpayer and without concern for the taxpayer, to undo trade deals and go back to exporting our wealth, to open our borders to uncontrolled illegal immigration, to flood illegals onto our entitlement programs and in our public education system….. in general, to overload our American systems so that they crash and true socialism or even worse arises out of their ashes.

The most important civic duty an American citizen has is to be informed and educated and responsible at the ballot box in order that our country has the integrity and strength for successive generations.

What is the key word in the phrase that once described our government — “government of the People, by the People, and for the People” ? — THE PEOPLE.

We can only have such a government if the political parties stop being so absolutely adversarial, if they stop being so critically opposite, and if they stop putting their power-thirsty interests and agenda above the interests of the people. We can only have a functional governance if they stop using the government as their battleground.

DC politicians and DC politics make me sick.