Partisanship: Why It's Gotten Worse

As a delegate to my state's convention in 2016 for the presidential campaign, I was hopeful that after eight years of what was clearly a more divided country, our nation might finally have a chance to recover and heal.

Eight years of the promise of "Hope & Change" which actually ended up being a series of incidences which further divided the nation into factions pitted against each other, my sense was that the nation had had enough of the negativity and lies. Our law enforcement was being attacked, our own government agency was selling guns to Mexican cartels and covered it up, our sense of national pride was in decline and our economy was languishing.

Being told by Pres. Obama multiple times in the process of selling his health care proposal to the nation that we could keep our doctor, our health care plan, or both, then discovering that, after it finally passed in Congress millions actually lost both, and had to pay a fee to not have it because we didn't want it, to me was the final straw.

Then, a man who was laughed at and ridiculed when he announced he was going to run for president, began stating his platform and policies he would implement. Being conditioned by other past candidates, many were silently smiling inside because we understood the game; promise the moon, but don't deliver once in office.

The media throughout the campaign consistently "poo-pooed" the Trump candidacy and hailed the Clinton one, it was clear she was going to win in their assessment. News broke that Clinton had illegally used an unsecured server as the former Secretary of State and we learned that she had not only deleted 30,000 of them, but destroyed much of the evidence in the form of laptops and cell phones. 

When the F.B.I. Director took o the roll of exonerating Clinton for those alleged crimes, the nation didn't quite know what to think. Then Trump shocked the nation and won.

Within 18 minutes of his inauguration the media was announcing that he would have to be impeached because Trump was supposedly a Russian "stooge" for Putin. During the inauguration we began to hear various celebrities at their anti-Trump rallies declare that they would just as soon set the White House on fire and burn it down. Over the following months, more and more uncivil actions and remarks - bloodied head being held high, and actors using vulgarity towards the president became more common place and frequent.

From there the partisanship accelerated exponentially by the Democrats who were determined to run him out of office. "Impeach 45!" was the clarion call of Maxine Waters. Once the Democrats retook the House, Cong. Al Green called for the president's impeachment on the House floor. Eventually Cong. Adam Smith asserted that he had actual evidence that Trump had committed crimes which were grounds for impeachment, and the lies grew grander and more frequent.

So, in hearing that Cong. Denny Heck (D) is now resigning over his frustration that partisanship has gotten out of control, I ask him; who's increased the partisanship, your party, or the Republicans? In my view, they've been simply using facts and defending a president who's proved the skeptics who through he was going to be just another politician getting richer from the term in office wrong.

He's the first president who's actual carried through with his campaign policies and platform. He accomplished what few others in the office have gotten close to creating, a booming and robust economy and removed mountains of federal bureaucratic regulations which have strangled the businesses of our nation.

No, if there's any partisanship being exercised, it is the left who refuses to accept their loss and understand that what Pres. Trump's done is dooming their very future as a party. And they can't combat success, so they resort to impeachment as their only remedy to the threat.