Dear Mr. Franken,
We need your voice now more than ever! We are in a cultural war, and we, the people with values and compassion, are under siege. We have very few leaders and the other side is engaged in a concerted effort to eliminate, one by one, the voices of dissent.
In this time of moral darkness, you have been one of the leading voices standing up to the wanna-be tyrants seeking to pillage this country. I am convinced that yours is a patriotic voice challenging the furtive machinations of the greed-driven and self-dealing gang of snake-oil salesmen led by Donald Trump.
You have been one of the most articulate voices challenging the pattern of unethical and hypocritical posturing, and naturally you have drawn the ire attention of these fraudsters.
I understand, that in the past, you took some actions which were inappropriate. I certainly do not approve of those actions.
But there is a matter of degree!
We have Mr. Trump, on tape, bragging about his own actions and now denying them. And his actions were much more numerous, more egregious, and more offensive, than what you have been accused of.
In this era of hypocrisy and self-dealing, to have the chorus led by President Pu***-Gr***** insisting that you must resign, is once again a new low in hypocrisy.
Even your response was much more appropriate; you acknowledged and apologized while President Pu***-Gr***** called his accusers liars and threatened to sue them all. Even when there is tape of him admitting multiple offenses !
Mr. Franken, none of us are perfect. So while we aspire to higher standards, we know that even the loftiest of human goals will occasionally fall short. The Republican reaction is to deny, deny, deny, challenging even the evidence to which they previously admitted, and to condemn the accusers.
President Pu***-Gr***** clearly considers his denials, and the denials of Roy Moore, to be virtuous; in comparison, he condemns you for taking the high road where you responded by admitting, apologizing, and vowing to do better.
Mr. Franken, the other side does not care about truth, facts, science, or morals. We do.
The other side tries to hijack our morals and use them against us, so that their blackest souls are leading their choruses in chanting “Lock her up” or now “Franken must resign”. Now that Flynn has pled guilty, NONE of these blackhearts are calling for Flynn to be locked up. Hypocrisy is rampant, and there is a deliberate effort to cloud facts, and to seek to create a false equivalence between the cracks in our moral shortcomings versus their yawning chasms of moral shortcomings.
Although I am not a strong at biblical quotations, I would like to point out to these opportunistic gangsters that Matthew 7:3 asks “Why do you look at the splinter in your brother's eye, but not notice the beam in your own eye?
The answer is that the pirates are opportunistic posturers who have no real morality, and they are supported by certain Christian leaders who have no Christianity. They are all willing to point out our shortcomings but adamantly refuse to admit to their own. Because their cause is not about true morality, and it is not about true patriotism. Their cause is greed and self-interest, cloaked in the shiny trappings of morality and patriotism.
Mr. Franken, when the Allied troops were storming the beaches during D-Day, they were attacking Nazis entrenched in well-fortified positions. The Allied losses were enormous, but in the end, we prevailed.
Suppose, during the landing craft ride to those hellish beaches, we had allowed the Nazis to talk us into throwing all of the less-than-perfect soldiers overboard before they reached the beach; how would that have changed the outcome of that battle?
Mr. Franken, in this war against greed and piracy, the pirates are calling on us to toss out some of our best fighters due to relatively small flaws. But please remember, we are fighting pirates for the soul of our nation.
I urge to stay in the fight! We need your voice and your leadership. Do not assist them to in their efforts to disarm us ! Please do not heed the calls to resign, because as they eliminate the good guys, only the shamelessly evil will remain.