Monday, December 26th, 2022
My Dear America:
Clearly 2022 has been one Hell of a Year that has taught us a Great Deal about a lot of things happening in America.
Not the least of those Life Lessons is what we learned from the January Sixth Committee about the role played before, during and after January Sixth 2021 by our United States President At the Time, Donald Trump. Although most of us thought we knew the whole story backwards and forwards about Donald Trump's involvement in the shady dealings of January Sixth, the January Sixth Committee showed most of us very clearly (Primarily in the words of Staunch Republicans) that there was much more to the traitorous and despicable tale of January Sixth that we were unaware of until the Genuine Patriots on that Committee brought us the Bad but Necessary News.
Although most of the members of the January Sixth Committee will still be back in Congress in the New Year there are some Committee Members who won't be back.
The two Republican Members of the Committee, Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney will no longer be in Congress to show that not all Republicans were willing to put up with the insanity and the lies that it takes to be a Republican in Good Standing with their party these days. Kinzinger clearly saw that being a member of the Republican 'Truth Squad" was not a stepping stone to success for him so he chose not to run for Congress for another term. Cheney, on the other hand chose to run once again for Congress in Wyoming and lost her Republican Primary race in a landslide defeat to someone who she thought was a Cheney loyalist but who turned out to have switched sides and was in the end only loyal to Donald Trump.
We will miss Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger in the New Congressional Year but we will certainly appreciate all of the hard work they put into telling the hard truths about Donald Trump and the Neanderthals who carried out his sick and disgusting Invasion of the Capitol on January Sixth 2021.
On the Democratic Side of the January Sixth Committee members not returning to Congress in 2023 both Democrats Stephanie Murphy of Florida and Elaine Luria of Virginia will be among the missing in the 2023 Congress. Stephanie Murphy decided on her own that she was through with Congress and didn't run for another term. Congresswoman Luria ran but lost her bid in her purple state to a Republican Challenger.
This past week the January Sixth Committee finally released their 800 page report on the disturbing events of January Sixth and the details of the plot to destroy Democracy in America by Donald Trump and his Cabal of his Crazed and Demented Dunces.
Although I have yet to dig into the report I have seen almost every minute of the televised sessions, all of which has been truly shocking to see in our country.
As I stand on the brink of another calendar year poised to continue to write the truth as I see it I am strengthened by most of the events of 2022.
Anyone reading my Blog or listening to my Podcasts could certainly realize that prior to this past November's Election I was convinced that we were certainly on the edge of completely losing our Democracy. I thought that things were so crazy and that Donald Trump had bamboozled so many people that we were ready to send democracy over the cliff to it's death and destruction.
Thankfully, I was wrong to think that Democracy was on the way out. I thank every American who got up off their comfortable chair or sofa in November of 2020 and went out to vote. I also thank the many young people concerned about their future enough to get out and vote. I also thank the many women who were pissed off enough about losing their reproductive rights to Right Wing Supreme Court Justices and who realized that they had voting power and used it forcefully this time around. I thank those people like myself who did what they had to do to qualify for early voting or voting by mail.
In the end we all did it. We saved Democracy and didn't let lunatics like Donald Trump or Tucker Carlson call the shots this time.
Although we lost Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney, we also lost Keri Lake and many other Trump Backed Election Deniers. In Pennsylvania we showed Republicans Doug Mastroiano and Doctor Oz the door and instead elected Josh Shapiro for Governor and John Fetterman to the United States Senate.
Good for You America. We saved our Democracy one more time but in the process we learned just how fragile our Democracy is and just how much more we need to pay attention to it. We have to nourish it and keep it healthy and working well.
Election Deniers fell like rain in this past election and those of us who cared came out to vote in droves. We need to keep coming out in droves and we need to pay attention to what is going on in our halls of Congress not only on days like January Sixth but on all days, every day that Congress is in session.
Yes, Genuine American Patriots came out ahead on January Sixth of 2021. But that is no guarantee for the future of America. Donald Trump was unlucky enough to have chosen a man for his Vice President who remembered his oath to the Constitution on January Sixth and was unwilling to bend to Donald Trump's browbeating and unconstitutional Demands. Trump is continuing to try to get himself back in power. Those of us who love Democracy and Love America including Democrats in the White House and in the the House and Senate and elsewhere in the country need to remember the lessons we learned from the soon to be defunct but never to be forgotten January Sixth Committee.
We once again continue to have a Democracy. If we can Keep it. And we certainly can and must keep it.
Although voting in 2022 could have been worse. It could also have been better. We did pretty well overall and rejected some pretty awful candidates but some like J.D. Vance and George Santos slipped through the Cracks and although it was by just a few votes we did lose control of the House of Representatives and unfortunately have guaranteed ourselves a Shit Show in that body for the next two years.
But the God's Honest Truth is that in 2022 we have once again shown that the American Democracy System can work and did work once again and hopefully will continue to work long into the future.
Yes, the American Democratic system has its drawbacks but we have shown in 2020 and 2022 that when the American People are paying attention and are voting accordingly Democracy is still a pretty good system of Government, after all.
Sincerely Yours
Jerry Gallagher
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