Thank you, John Mannion, for showing us how a true representative of the people stands up to truth and calls out the shameless cowardice of his colleagues who, like sheep, follow the cruel demands of a despotic leader!
Your righteous indignation is no crime. It reflects your moral indignation at the hypocrisy and cruelty that is now pervasive in the Trump regime that abandons the poor and needy in order to support the privileged.
Yes, your righteous indignation is no crime. What is a crime is allowing families to go hungry.
What is a crime is denying medical treatment to the sick.
What is a crime is turning your back on the world and reneging on promises and programs that keep illnesses such as HIV at bay.
What is a crime is destroying the fabric of family life, ruthlessly and without a coherent plan detaining those who have contributed to our daily life鈥檚 activities and deporting them to the cruelest of prisons without due process.
What is a crime is failure to call out the idiocy of what is happening and continuing without questioning the chaos, the cruelty, and the obvious criminality.
Your righteous indignation reflects the outrage that we feel as the most inexperienced candidates are now in positions of power that affect our national security, our precious health, our educational system, our children, our environment, our transportation system, the very life we enjoy.
We need others like you in Congress to stand up and sound the call as you did. We need the Democrats to keep challenging, daily and in loud voices, the transgressions and attacks on our democracy. We need the Republicans to break ranks and have the courage to speak out.
Unless that happens, truly 鈥渢he emperor has no clothes鈥 and it will take a stronger voice than we now have to call the masses to react.
Roseann Lorefice lives in Manlius.
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