[Hoot Gibson]

Of all people, TRT, and with a memory as you claim, I would think you would reflect without bias on the candidates. Donald Trump championed the notion that a twice elected President was not a US citizen. Then, in a terse statement, capable of being uttered by a 4th grader, he said, in effect, and with tribute to SNL's Gilda Radner, "Never mind." I realize certain issues are vital to you, and that the SCOTUS and who is appointed is crucial, but I am under no obligation to stop critically assessing until I pull the curtain.

Now, I have not said that politics is a moral art form, nor an integritous one, nor that there are zero politicians who occasionally rise above the morass. However, the object is to win, and the stakes are high. Very high.

It is true that the object in politics is to win elections, but how you win does, in fact, matter.

The reason that Congressional approval numbers has been so low for so many years is in large part due to the tactics employed to get incumbents of both parties re-elected with OUR money. Gerrymandering district lines to create as many safe Republican and safe Democratic seats as possible and the phony campaigns where nearly every Republican campaigns as a conservative and nearly every Democrat poses as a moderate, have understandably soured most Americans on their federal government.

The fact that most of the current members of Congress, the current occupant of the White House, and both major presidential candidates have been active participants in a corrupt electoral process is not a good reason to accept that the current system is the best that we can do without a whimper. Anybody old enough to have watched the way that the Watergate scandal was handled, including the firing of a young lawyer named Hillary Clinton for her unethical conduct, knows that our nation is capable of holding crooked politicians accountable.