Logically Humane FREE-WILL. Perhaps a distillation of Jesus’s principles evolved into a philosophy — and such may be said to have been framed into a system of government by Madison’s Constitution (and it’s amendments accurately interpreted by a legitimate judiciary)
As the founder of my alma mater University, Thomas Jefferson surely would opine; an Honorable man is NOT one who turns his back on those who have DIED for him, by Judas.
The corrupt Bozo who Virginia’s Republican Party supports in the White House utilized the Kurdish Peshmerga warriors for years to put down the rabid dog of Wahabi extremist enemies of the True Mohammad’s “oft-forgiving loving-kindness” interpretation of Allah, the Daeesh (ISIS) satanists and then; after sacrificing 11,000 LIVES for such a worthy cause betrayed them to be slaughtered by the destroyer of Ataturk’s Secular democracy, Erdogan. Perhaps he has no concept of duty though, of course having been a draft-dodger in the Viet-nam era ! And after all he has TWO chump Towers in Istanbul ! Thirty pieces of silver seems to be his only real mode of communication, (a “transactional” prostitute).
The voters of my home-commonwealth might look to our history as to why we even have a country that is not still oppressed by the British Monarch ? I attended a High School named after the military victory which allowed such, Yorktown; where the revolutionaries never would have proved victorious without our staunch ALLIES of the time, the French Nation-via Lafayette’s forces ( a land which inspired and befriended our Thomas Jefferson).
Notwithstanding the traditional intelligence of forming and nurturing like-minded alliances however, a most critical historical change occurred in the world with the development of weapons which can EXTINCT our entire species as demonstrated at Hiroshima/Nagasaki (& further empowered by about a thousand-fold per device since then !). How responsible voters can support a party which empowers a mentally deficient simpleton who seems not to have noticed such an enormous change in the state of world interactions and imagines that our country can IGNORE the rest of the world under such circumstances is beyond comprehension.
This even holds for those who (like I) have been raised in a quite conservative religious family. For no matter how many angels one believes can stand on the head of a pin (what doctrinal differences one has with other religions of good report) the prime responsibility seems to require our SURVIVAL long enough to even engage in such discussion !! logically.
Recalling the old testament lesson of JOB we, after all must survive our own technological developments thru co-existence if we are not to commit the greatest sin imaginable; that of Species-cide !! (Thru incompetence and worship of Chump’s true god - Mammon.) For if we are stupid enough to kill ourselves then the adversary of humanity is correct regarding our worthiness to exist. Or NOT !
Chump seems to be addicted to the appearance of “fame”. He seems willing to do anything to get his mug in the papers or on TV; and like other gangster simpletons does not discern the difference between being “famous” versus “notorious”. George Washington is famous (known for good deeds); whereas Benedict Arnold and Judas Iscariot are notorious (noted for extremely evil deeds). The only time I’ve had my picture in the paper was filling sand-bags during the Cuban Missile crisis at my elementary school outside Washington D.C. Perhaps my experience gave me more wisdom and vision than his megalomaniac pursuit of notice ??
BTW to understand why the Republicans are claiming problems with the Impeachment investigation, again one should understand the history of their current “Justice” Department’s so-called leadership. For those of us responsible enough to have noticed the Iran-Contra treasons of the eighties Willam Barr is the reason that the Cocaine-for-Death Squads dealing by Reagan/Bush/Weinberger/Claire George/Dewey Clairidge/Oliver North were never prosecuted, which impunity has led to today’s criminal regime in the executive branch. Right at the moment when Defense Secretary Weinberger was going to be tried Mr. Barr agreed with co-conspirator George Bush’s PARDON of all these criminals (because he’s such a believer in the “rule-of-law” ??). This is the level of integrity that chump installed to run the Justice dept. who according to former director Robert Muller mis-represented his report and then redacted (HID) the most important parts of it; and then found “no reason” to investigate the attempts to coerce the Ukrainian government into lying about Joe Biden’s sons innocent business (which has by now formed the basis for Impeachment hearings). THAT is the reason that the House of Representatives HAD to perform a Grand Jury type investigation behind closed doors in the FIRST place ! Methinks they do protest too much. In a true democracy we would probably impeach Barr in the first place to ALLOW any prosecution of Putin’s puppet ! If there was any doubt about Hillary’s accusation back when she first pointed it out, the press conference where he sided with the Kremlin against our own Intel agencies, the stab in the back to the Kurds and such policies’ obvious beneficiary, Vladimir Putin demonstrates in triplicate how correct she was.
The one item that almost surely would lead to the Senate’s removal of the Kremlin Operative in the Oval Office is that which EVERY citizen of this country is REQUIRED to make public when requested by the United States Congress - their TAX RETURN - which has been so fiercely refused by Donald Duck Chump because he has so much to HIDE (like his prostitution to the Kremlin Bankers, his illegal payments to Mistresses in the ’16 election year and whatever else he is SO DESPERATE to prevent the Electorate seeing !!!)
Tuesday’s voting in the Commonwealth also relates to:
The fact that maybe for the first time in our History the lack of such flagrant Gerrymandered districts make for the possibility of more representative government in Virginia ! So if you want to make Virginia (& the World) a better place; turn out and Vote (Democratic) !
The turn-around of the evil such as a dozen slaughtered in Virginia Beach this year thanks to the GOPs prostitution to the NRA triple profit margin sellout which contends that even limiting the cowards weapons of firearms (which kill at a safe distance) to one a month is “too restrictive” and that one can’t hunt deer without an assault weapon (easily filed into a machine gun) ! After all gun control keeps the slaughter rate down by 90 to 99% less than here in Western Europe and Japan where they logically practice such (but the air must be different there, they probably claim ? )
Removal of the Enemies of the Equal Rights Amendment which would allow ALL Virginians to receive a fair day’s wage for a fair day’s work; even if they are female !!! (what a concept).
Another example of cheating Republicans is the so-called leader of the Senate, Moscow Mitch who goes to bat for Putin’s puppet at every turn to pack the Judiciary with extreme right-wing appointees no matter how many women they molest (in parallel with the molester-in-chief). What is so below contempt in this regard is how his only goal for the Senate under a duly elected President Obama (who actually DID win the majority) was to prevent the choice of the American people from carrying out their wishes; especially appointing a Supreme Court Justice in his final year.
Regarding the implication of a LEGITIMATE Judiciary, one notes that if Reagan/Bush HAD been subject to prosecution and conviction they would NOT have been allowed to pack the “Supreme Court” illegally for six years after 1987. Another fun fact; apparently Sandra Day O-conner had an Alzheimic moment of honesty recently and admitted that she knowingly made the WRONG decision as to the Millenial “election” for the Republicans because she wanted to be replaced by someone in her own partisan party !! Nothing more corrupt than the G(reed) O(iled) P(arty) by the time of Teddy Roosevelt who, after all tried to replace it's rotten corpse with something more honorable like a gathering of Bull Moose (look it up !)
It's so ironic, instead of Bullwinkle the GOP has become the party of Boris & Natasha !