As a cynic where virtually anything having to do with finding good in government is concerned, I would have thought that I would have accepted with equanimity James Comey’s announcement and recommendation that Hillary Clinton skate on her wholly irresponsible behavior concerning sharing of information concerning our national security. In other words, that I’d look upon this new event as just another something to be expected as the norm these days. Instead, it has induced a deep and profound disappointment and a sense of almost overwhelming despair for the state of government in Washington, and for the country as a whole.
So what to think and do going forward?
My new hope is that I’m not alone in feeling this way and that others, who had been treating this election cycle as just another predictable and slightly soiled political exercise, will come to feel as profoundly as I do that circumstances must change. Then, once the shock over this newest aberration having to do with exacting justice subsides, I hope they find themselves re-energized to fight the endemic corruption brought to Washington by the Chicago machine. Then I hope they get themselves to the polls early on Election Day to vote with a vengeance to sweep the current coterie of blackguards out of office across the board.
This possibility may be too much to hope for and may even qualify as fantasy, but to preserve my own sanity and well-being, I’m sticking to it.
PAUL MIRSKI
Enfield Center