Why do you so gladly surrender your co-equal branch of government to the executive branch and rubber stamp everything our lying president does? Why do you focus solely on your richest donors and ignore your true constituents, those who elected you? If you deny this fact, point us to anything recent you have accomplished that helps working families, minorities, the Black population, Latinos, immigrants, even the handicapped. They are your true constituents. Surely, the richest among us don’t need you except for one thing … to increase their disproportionate wealth and power. Choosing them over your electors is truly telling.

You think you fool us, because the minority of voters whom you have successfully denied education (not multiple question test skills, but learning critical thinking) still support you. Add to them, those who believe that equal rights under the Constitution shouldn’t exist at all. Now the president is doing everything he can to destroy voting rights and to make it harder, not easier to vote. Denying this fact, blaming it on “voter fraud,” (in fact negligible in our election system), is perhaps your most cynical act. I have come to the point where I think asking you to do the right thing, to resist our emerging dictator, is largely hopeless, all the while knowing that things will become so intolerable, that your collective reigns will come to an end, and we, the people, will eventually hold you accountable. That is your future. It can’t come soon enough.

Rick Colson

Northampton