If anyone else actually reads this -- I would encourage you to speak out, too.
My name is Marc Kloszewski from Indiana, PA. I don’t normally write letters to congressmen
or representatives, but with the Trump Presidency imminent, I wanted to express
my grave concern at the direction of this country this country may be headed. I’m not afraid of terrorists, I’m not afraid
someone’s going to take my guns away, I’m not afraid of immigrants taking my
job or killing me. What I’m concerned with are the priorities of a Donald Trump
administration.
After a much-too-long election season, I overwhelmingly feel
that in the end, this election has been stolen by Donald Trump, with the help of
foreign governments, and moneyed interests worldwide through a combination of
voter suppression, media coverage that emphasized style (and advertising
dollars) over substance, and decades-long attacks on Hillary Clinton, whom I
see as an imperfect but generally decent and competent public servant. Despite
my original support of Bernie Sanders, I feel Secretary Clinton was by far the
better candidate over Donald Trump to lead our country, and I’m willing to bet
that you and many of your colleagues feel the same way.
I don’t have a lot of faith that anything will change the
fact that Trump will be President come January 20th, or even that
the highly likely possibility of impropriety, graft, and corruption related to
the Trump campaign will be investigated to the fullest extent. There are too
many people with agendas of their own that are doing their best to sweep things
under the rug and to continue on, insisting that we should all “move on” and to
leave all the ugliness of the campaign behind us.
I’ll tell you one thing, though. I know that when President
Obama was elected in 2008, that Republicans gathered together with the intent
of not giving Obama ANY victories, purely for the sake of holding on to power
by any means necessary. That’s on the record from Mitch McConnell and others,
as I’m sure you are well aware. I will never understand the hatred and greed
that motivates these decisions. It’s actions like these that make people
despise politicians, putting one’s own self-interest before moving this country
forward.
It didn’t matter that we could have employed people to fix
our crumbling infrastructure. It didn’t matter that we were on the verge of
financial collapse. It doesn’t matter that our public schools should be improved
instead of forcing a for-profit model on us. It doesn’t matter that businessmen
and the lawmakers in their pockets want deregulation to the detriment of the
health and safety of the American people. It doesn’t matter that the cost of
healthcare and medicine is wildly out of control. It doesn’t matter that we’re draining every
last bit of fossil fuels out of the ground and pumping it into the atmosphere,
warming the planet to levels where at this point we might not be able to
recover, instead of prioritizing green solutions which other countries are
implementing long before we can even get around to discussing them.
No, the only real goal for Obama’s opposition was to defeat
him personally, and slander his name so voters will always feel that the other
side is the enemy to be defeated, whatever it costs us. And meanwhile, the
business of the country is perpetually ignored. If you’re not fighting against
this kind of insanity, how do you all sleep at night? What are you there for,
if not to move our country, our state and our communities forward?
Now, instead of the intelligent, thoughtful, reasonable man
we have as President, we genuinely have a dangerous fool about to enter the
White House, and I am certain that his inattention and inexperience to the
monumental tasks at hand will lead him to making some very, very bad decisions,
or through his appointees, whose agendas I am thoroughly convinced DO NOT
represent the vast majority of people in this country, no matter if his
supporters have fallen for Trump’s lies and obfuscations repeatedly.
You only need look at his cabinet choices to understand that
they almost always run antithetical to the missions of their departments, that
they prioritize the protection of moneyed interests, and favors for the world
of business that Trump inhabits – and as a bonus, no doubt, a thumb in the eye
of enlightened people who would “foolishly” hope to protect the working man,
the fragile economy of this country, and the planet we all inhabit. The idea
that he and his crew were able to convince enough Americans that this
ill-equipped, immature bully should be our President is something I will never
get over. Apparently too many of us were too busy being distracted by things
that don’t matter, false flags like “having our guns taken away,” or “we need
to build a wall,” the endless fascination with and dissection of Trump’s
personality. What matters are policies – something barely discussed in the year-and-a-half
of campaigning – instead of who can most effectively bring the other person
down.
I’m a middle-aged man. I wasn’t happy when Reagan or both
Bushes were elected, but I never have felt as worried for this country as I am
at this point. The fact that so many Americans look to Donald Trump as someone
who will “Make America Great Again” would be laughable if it weren’t so
horrific.
Senator, this is where I hope you will be of good conscience
and take a stand to educate your constituents and influence your colleagues to
more than ever be vigilant in standing up for the rights of workers, women, and
minorities. When you see legislation coming before you that puts our country on
the wrong path, I pray that you will reject it and tirelessly advocate for
better ways that help us ALL, instead of the privileged few.
I pray that you will also reject the temptations of money
and power, and the people who promote these things above all. They are at the
core of most of the ills this country faces, and soon we’ll be handing the
reins over to the worst possible representatives whose only responsibilities
are to themselves. I do not believe that Trump and his millionaire cronies care
one whit about the lives of “ordinary” Americans who are struggling. If our
country goes on a downward spiral, economically, environmentally, etc., I have
an idea that the billionaires will be fine, but what about the rest of us?
What President Elect goes on a “victory tour” to cap off a
hateful, divisive and uninformed campaign? What President Elect would have ever
been given a pass on folding his adult children into an unethical and possibly
illegal relationship between government and private enterprise? The level of
possible malfeasance and the ultimate lowering of the Presidential standard is
NOT NORMAL, and we should not accept it as such, or bend to the will of a few
rich and influential people.
We need to put our citizens first, not corporations, and to
reverse decisions such as Citizens United that claim that the more money you
have, the more free speech you have. They are NOT equivalent.
We need to correct the disastrous path that climate change
has brought upon us. I believe in science, and the idea that there are a lot of
people smarter than me, and educated voices of reason should be paid attention
to and respected, not maligned, ignored, or covered up.
We need to make education a priority, and with that, a path
to bring back good paying jobs.
We need to take care of our elders by protecting things like
Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, and to stop demonizing people who need
a hand up via government assistance. Our country is too prosperous to represent
the opinion of those who are mean-spirited, ungenerous and who seek to divide
rather than unite. We’re better than this!!
We need to stop devoting endless resources and money in
preparation for and execution of war, in a country whose military is already tremendously
strong and better-funded than most, if not all countries. That money can be put
to much better use by improving the lives of our citizens, right here at home.
We need to ensure that diverse voices in this country are
heard, and to call out racism and bigotry when we see it. We need to support
net neutrality, and keep that pipeline of free, unfiltered information on the
internet and over the airwaves so that we don’t end up in a country where the only opinions we’re allowed to hear or
read are ones that support corporate interests, or the 1 percent.
Common sense stuff, right? My earnest hope is that through
your work that most of all, legislators can somehow see past the toxic
partisanship and work towards the obvious common goals that all Americans
share, and to fight against those who would suppress them or distract us all
from what really matters, and that you’ll be on the front lines.
I wanted to speak out, with the confidence that millions of
people feel similarly to my point of view. This country elected Donald Trump
with a 3-million vote deficit on his part. He has no mandate, other than the
people want “change.” I don’t think the people who voted for him realize what
they’re truly supporting. I think we’ve been hoodwinked, and my wish is that
every day your attention is to, now more than ever, be a check on this
President.
I appreciate your time. Thank you for your hard work.
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