INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Dare I say it, my respect and trust of institutions and the people in them is badly tanking.And so is the respect and trust of the majority
61% of adults believe the Biden victory in 2020 was legitimate
Kagan, and Sotomayer in their angry 60-page dissent from the majority decision in the Supreme Court landmark abortion case of Dobbs,
the end of Supreme Court dissents, symbolic of polite disagreement among different jurists as to how they interpret the law and the
the fierce philosophical and, I suspect, personal divide on the court, a divide similar to the red and blue one that plagues the country.How
imagining how its authors perceived the issues when writing the original document than to dissent but without respect.The dissenters argued
Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Rep
Taylor Greene on the floor of the United States House of Representatives, called Rep
interest, got into a vulgar public slanging match.House Rules for the US Congress require members to conduct themselves in a manner that
reflects creditably on the Congress.Neither of these ladies would seem to be obeying them.Respect has even disappeared from movie theaters
Social media is full of accounts of drunken outbursts, public nudity and nonstop cellphone use disrupting packed theaters.The Washington
together a diverse population with myriad differing backgrounds and strong conflicting opinions?What the indictment is about is the effort
to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power through free and fair elections, a bedrock function of the United States federal government, one
which is built on trust and respect.Democracy is at issue here, nothing less.The 2024 election will be the first national test of whether
trust in free and fair elections remains as the foundational principle of American democracy or whether we must descend into a dystopian
world of unbridled vulgarity with the loss of respect and trust in our institutions and one another?Tens of millions of voters will become
the jury and deliver the ultimate verdict.
