- United States
- Wisc.
- Letter
I am a mother of two school-age children, a teacher, and a proud member of my community in Waukesha, Wisconsin. As someone with a Masters in History, I am watching the past weeks in our country with particular alarm. History shows us over and over that when a nation allows one voice to become the loudest in the room, and the only one that matters, it grows harm and an authoritarian government.
I do not believe the executive branch should dominate all other areas of government. Congress and the courts are not in place to simply nod their heads and further the agenda of the executive branch.
Do not stand silently by while government systems that were put in place to protect the most vulnerable among the American people are dismantled overnight.
Do not stand silently by while decisions are made, then rescinded, then made again, in a way that makes our nation untrustworthy to the rest of the world.
Do not stand silently by while the ultra-wealthy are protected and the vulnerable attacked under a cloak of making the government more efficient. This is not efficiency. True efficiency would use data to analysis the root cause of the problems we have and seek better ways to do things -- not burn the house down while the people are inside.
You were elected to be the voice of the American people and the people of Wisconsin. You were elected to uphold the Constitution and our system of checks and balances. You were not elected to serve the president, only because he is the loudest voice in the room.
Speak up today for us, who are trying to live our lives well, keep our household budgets from falling apart amidst economic turmoil and rising prices, who care about our neighbors and schools and immigrants and all the things that truly make America a great and beautiful place to live.
