Deflection

It is amazing to watch the Democrats change their view on issues to fit public support through the years. Just take the issue of peace from the Vietnam conflict to the Russian/Ukraine war. Since the 1960s to now, they have taken a 180 degree change in peace.

How we can remember the peace protest of the 1960s. In Joiner High, I felt that the students on campus were more militant than the Vietcong. The late 1960s have always felt like a black period of time in our country. And, regarding the this sad period of time, we still have lawmakers that still in congress bringing forward the peace environment of the late 1960s. Or, do we? After the presidents speech on March 3, that may not be a true statement.

Maybe it was the war that they were protesting that made a difference. The protesters even took their frustrations out on the troop returning from Vietnam that left a bad impression on them for the rest of their lives, and the protester could not care less then and today. Our solders are people that should be respected then and today, especially since they were just carrying out orders. Orders that were coming from the politicians, like President Johnson, and not from the military staff, as the protesters would like for everyone to believer.

By look back at this conflict, it becomes apparent that our country was fighting Cold War with Russia in Vietnam instead of on our own soil. Although we were actually winning the conflate, we pulled out, for political reasons, before we had control of north Vietnam. The world would sure different if there was only one Vietnam.

During President Trumps speech in March in the House of Representatives, Senator Elisabeth Warren, growing up in the 1960s, made a gesture that she supports sending funds to Ukraine and not proceeding with world peace. President Putin has to be out raged that our country would send funds to the Ukraine to fight a war against his county. As Secretary Talsi Gabbard has explained, our funds being sent to the Ukraine could launch a world war. As in the 1960s, peace is always the better option. As President Ronald Reagan stated to Mikhail Gorbachev, “tear down this wall.” He was making it clear that this country is all about peace and not war.

Senator Elisabeth Warren made it clear President Trump referred to her as Pocahontas, during his March Speech, she gestured that the democrats today are not interested in peace. What has happened to the Democrats? Why are they not interested in peace like they were in the 1960s? They feel that if they stand for peace that they will not get elected. What a change in attitude? The Democrats will only stand for issues that get them elected.

Senator Elisabeth Warren feeling about getting elected are not the feelings of the Framers of the US Constitution, since they saw this country as a republic and not the democracy as the Democrats see it today. Two senators were to be selected and confirmed by each state governments. The senators were supposed to support the states and not the people as Senator Elisabeth Warren made so clear in her gesture during the president Trump’s March speech. The Framers saw the Senate as filled with senators that were provident people in this country that was focused on protection the US Constitution, and they serve the states that they represented in the Senate. If there was no Seventeenth Amendment, there would be no Senator Elisabeth Warren. And, hopefully, the Senators would be interested in the Constitution and not trying to get reelected.

With the Seventeenth Amendment, it is clear that our country has deflected out of what the focus that the Framers saw for this country. Therefore, with the Democrats worried about getting reelected, they are only interested in supporting the any cause that will get them reelected, even if they get fickle and go from supporting peace to supporting war. This country would function so much better if the Seventeenth Amendment was repealed.

Roger