I have opposed the two-party system for fifty years. If you have wondered why we should eliminate this antiquated system, turn on the news. Our Congress cannot elect a speaker. Apparently, no one can do anything about the gridlock between two factions in one of the parties.

I believe that the voters should contact our congresspersons and tell them that if they have been supporting the man that Trump wants and have lost ten votes already, you want them to get to work or you will recall them.

We elected these men and women to represent us. Stop messing around and get to work. This should be the last term that any of these people serve in congress. If you can’t elect the person that will lead you for the next two years, how can we expect you to get anything else done?

Josh Hawley the senior senator from Missouri announced the end of the Republican Party as it is currently known after the election in November. According to him, this is because of Donald Trump supports certain candidates nationwide. Those that were supported by the former President, failed to be elected. His statement was that independent voters did not approve of these men and women.

For myself, I did not vote for anyone on my ballot that had been endorsed by this treasonous, lying, the former president. Hawley’s statement is opposed to what he was saying two years ago. He still reminds us that he liked many of the things that Trump did as President.

It does not surprise me when I think of his election for Missouri’s Attorney General in 2016, where he promised us, he was not a politician and had no aspirations for other offices. Missourians believed him. A majority supported him in his 2018 bid for the Senate.

We are surrounded by liars and incompetence. It isn’t just the Republicans. Even the Democrats don’t seem to be making good choices. Political parties have only one purpose currently. They finance the election of those that toe the party line. I am sick and tired of the Republicrats and Demicans slowing down the process of passing laws.

It has been years since the US budget has been passed for an entire year. We constantly hear about last-minute approval of a stop-gap measure to keep the country from shutting down. We are told that one party doesn’t want to work with the other. Then the two parties have internal disagreements.

We need several things done by the congress, senate, and president. We need term limits, a balanced budget amendment, and a change in the primary process that allows all the voters to choose who will be on the ballot in November. The political parties have seen their day.   

Help me get the word out and remind the congressman from the Missouri seventh district that those first two were campaign promises of his. And the first thing he should propose is that his and the others’ pay should be suspended until the budget is balanced. You think congress is in turmoil now. Wait until he suggests that one.

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