{"id":144564,"date":"2025-03-19T22:48:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T22:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/alabama\/voters-deserve-better-than-cowardice-from-elected-leaders\/"},"modified":"2025-03-19T22:48:06","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T22:48:06","slug":"voters-deserve-better-than-cowardice-from-elected-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=144564","title":{"rendered":"Voters deserve better than cowardice from elected leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Look at them run.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Alabama Republican congressional delegation has never moved faster. Running away from constituents. Running away from responsibility. Running away from their oaths of office.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Life in the GOP has been a bit rough of late, as the party of cowards \u2013 afraid to question the unconstitutional, anti-American acts of the president they\u2019ve long praised \u2013 have been feeling the heat from voters over what can only be (kindly) called an unmitigated disaster for the American public since Donald Trump was elected.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Since the wanna-be dictator and his South African immigrant co-president began ripping the country to shreds, ignoring federal court orders and flushing the constitution, the economy has gone to absolute hell, and along with it the lives of American consumers. And, surprise, the folks who elected a 34-time felon largely on the promise that he\u2019d make groceries cheaper and home loans more affordable are bit peeved that he\u2019s done the opposite.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s particularly problematic that he\u2019s done the opposite while also acting like a raving lunatic who\u2019s living up to the libs\u2019 concerns about autocracy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But we have three branches of government (much to Tommy Tuberville\u2019s chagrin), and the good people have been lining up at Republican town halls over the past month or so demanding to know just where in the hell their cheaper eggs and better livin\u2019 is and what they plan to do about all of the \u2026 weirdness.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the thing about cowards though: They\u2019re not usually cowards just some of the time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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If you expected the folks who couldn\u2019t bring themselves to wrestle control of the party away from a reality TV star who has literally never spoken intelligently about a single policy initiative in his life, well, you were wrong. Instead, they\u2019ve done exactly what you should have expected them to do.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Run.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

No town halls for them. But don\u2019t worry, they had good reasons.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Gary Palmer blamed his running on \u201cpaid agitators.\u201d Those paid agitators have been coming down South now since the days of Bull Connor and fire hoses, and we still haven\u2019t found a conservative to stand up to them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Dale Strong blamed his cowardice on \u201cleft-wing liberals.\u201d While it\u2019s probably true that some left-wingers would be in the crowd at the town hall he was invited to attend, the last I checked, those left-wingers paid taxes that paid Strong\u2019s salary.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Mike Rogers went old school bigot and blamed his fear of constituent interaction on the great Jewish boogeyman, George Soros. Because \u2026 of course.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s all so pathetic. And transparent.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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No one buys this nonsense. Not even the maga cultists who still buy into the notion that Trump has some grand plan that will ultimately help average Americans. (He doesn\u2019t.) Even those folks know these dudes are running because they\u2019re too afraid to face the people they\u2019re supposed to serve.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The reality is the people who are angry and showing up to these town halls aren\u2019t a bunch of liberals, and they\u2019re damn sure not a bunch of \u201cpaid agitators.\u201d Have you watched the videos from these town halls? The people talking are veterans, registered Republicans, independents and really, really ticked off constituents who live in those representatives\u2019 districts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And they\u2019re showing up by the thousands in some places.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Because they want answers. Better answers than Strong telling people that the thousands of lost jobs in the Huntsville area is no biggie because the local economy can withstand it. They want something more than these guys insisting that Trump is popular and that the economy is \u201cfixing to take off.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The facts are that Trump isn\u2019t popular. He has the lowest approval ratings at this point of any president in U.S. history, and they\u2019re sinking lower every week. His co-president\u2019s approval ratings are even lower. The work of the slash-and-burn DOGE is tremendously unpopular. And the approval ratings of the Republican-controlled House and Senate are at abysmal lows.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s because outside of the billionaire bubble, where average people aren\u2019t getting White House lawn commercials to help them, many Americans are having a hard time. And they\u2019re watching an administration that promised to fix things immediately do everything but, and also do a lot of really, really awful things and even more legally questionable things.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

They want answers. They want someone \u2013 preferably some adults \u2013 to step in and do something. They want, at the very least, to have their elected representatives to stand in front of them and hear their anger, their struggles and their fears. They deserve at least that much.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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They deserve better than the cowardice they\u2019ve been getting. <\/span><\/p>\n

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