United States Senate 1789-2017

On April 6, 2017, Mitch McConnell and other Republicans made a decision that will alter the federal government on a critical level. One can not represent the American people and simultaneously serve as lackeys of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. Because of this, it must be known that the political body under Mitch McConnell is not the same political body described in the first article of the Constitution of the United States.

Denial of this fact will get you nowhere, there is no "rule of law" if the rules keep changing to benefit Trump and one party over the interests of the people. This is made all the more salient if you consider yourself a Democrat, a liberal, or a progressive; for there is an increasingly significant faction in the Republican Party that has all but openly declared war on you and at the very least demands your erasure from the public discourse. This is an overt failure to represent all of the American people.

A legitimate Senate would not enable Trump, it would act as a roadblock, not as an enabler. But there has been no action seen here reflecting of that. The response of the American people should be to mourn it and then treat it as an illegal entity, with Mitch McConnell's leadership being no different than the occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. With this knowledge, perhaps the Senate in a form representing the American people can be brought back in some way some day in the future.

Senate as the political body reflecting the will of the American people, you will be missed.