Thursday, April 3, 2025

A Moral Moment

                                   


Dear Sen./Rep. _______,

I'm guessing you didn't pay any attention to the marathon speech Cory Booker gave, so I'd like to give you a Cliff Notes version of it.

Quoting Heather Cox Richardson (whose Letters from an American it would do you good to read): 

Booker called out the Trump administration’s violations of the Constitution and detailed the ways in which the administration is hurting Americans. Farmers have lost government contracts, putting them in a financial crisis. Cuts to environmental protections that protect clean air and water are affecting Americans’ health. Housing is unaffordable, and the administration is making things worse. Cuts to education and medical research and national security breaches have made Americans less safe. The regime accidentally deported a legal resident because of “administrative error” and now says it cannot get him back.

"“These are not normal times in America, and they should not be treated as such,” he said. “This is our moral moment. This is when the most precious ideas of our country are being tested…. Where does the Constitution live, on paper or in our hearts?”

So many things to address. Could YOU begin by being outraged that, through an administrative error, a legal resident has been sent to a foreign prison and the administration that sent him there isn't trying to get him back? 

Let this be YOUR moral moment. Or is the word "moral" on the ever-expanding list of words proscribed by this immoral regime?

Your sincerely outraged constituent

 

 

6 comments:

Anvilcloud said...

It gets more and more bizarre.

Barbara Rogers said...

I'm just sick that Edwards only recent publicity was being totally in tRump's pocket.

Marcia said...

Great letter. Do you ever get a response to your letters?

Vicki Lane said...

Sometimes, though they are pretty generic. Sen. Tillis's office appears to be occasionally responsive to specifics.

Sandra Parshall said...

I see Tillis is making noises publicly about the damage trump is doing. I am so grateful to be represented by Mark Warner, Tim Kaine, and Don Beyer. And yesterday the Democrat-controlled Virginia legislature voted against more than 160 measures that Youngkin proposed that would have weakened the state and given republicans more control. We will elect a Democratic woman as governor in the coming election, and Virginia will truly be blue.

Vicki Lane said...

May it be so!