There are many lifeforms on our planet that do not have a rigid spine.
Jellyfish are a type.
So are insects who are hard on the outside but soft in the middle.
Broadly lifeforms without spines are called invertebrates.
Strangely, we as a people have decided that we prefer our elected leaders to be spineless.
Collectively, politicians do not have spines.
No backbone.
They look like you and I but for one crucial difference.
They have to be given cover to react.
You won't find a politician rushing into harm's way.
That is unless the herd, everyone else is also rushing in to save the day.
The politician can always be counted on last.
Politicians are not leaders.
Politicians morals are bendable.
Politicians can be said to be afraid of their own constituents who put them into office.
They are malleable.
They blow with the wind.
To stand upon a principle of morality, of justice, they have to have a shield behind which they can take cover.
It's just about damn impossible to find a politician who will stand up by themselves for principle even if it's in our Constitution.
Two or more standing together, yes.
Our ideal of a congressman and senator is a fiction that makes a good story.
But the reality is indeed something entirely different.
This past week something or someone handed out backbones to our legislative branch of the federal government.
Like lifeless puppets one moment, suddenly the Blue Fairy came through the window and made them real boys and girls.
Was it the President and his double-dog dare you can't bring me to justice I can do anything I want rants of late that gifted them with a backbone?
Was it high crimes we don't know about yet?
Was it a tiny spark of duty they pledged to uphold to protect we the people and our document the Constitution of the United States of America?
You never see 100 percent of anything these days.
But this week 421 congressmen and women, 100 senators male and female agreed that the whistleblower should be heard.
That was a disturbance in the Force.
Something shifted.
Something fell off the shelf.
Something lit a watchfire on the mountain peak of Rohan.
Politicians are not used to having a backbone.
Don't expect they will be comfortable with it for long.
Like toddlers learning how to walk, they will stand, stumble, and fall…
But they will get up again.
Those of us in the front lines calling for help to defend our Republic have looked behind us and have lamented there is no Calvary coming to save us.
No hail mary.
No plot twist.
We were doomed to a no-win outcome for justice.
Yet when the world seems darkest, and please trust me as one who can speak about life after a fall, life always finds a way.
Even jellyfish can rise together and find common cause.
Life versus darkness.
Justice versus injustice.
Truth versus deception.
Corruption, tyrants, criminals all have a blind spot.
You see, darkness cannot t see into the light.
Darkness assumes the motivations of the light are the same as theirs.
We who live in the light know that is not true.
We do not seek profit, power, or wealth when we do right.
We do right because it is right.
We don't need thanks when we extend our compassion, our love to help others.
That is where the darkness of man's soul always makes its fatal error.
Tyrants can be counted on like clockwork to be evil.
Just like this President, it can be counted upon to impeach itself.
Do right.
Drop hate.
Lift hope.
Show your backbone.
Peace
DFrey
