Dear Mitch McConnell,

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Dear Mitch,

I would say I’m writing in regard to your recent announced retirement. But that is not why. It’s because first, I’m feeling sorry for you because you seem so vulnerable. Not that you deserve it, but because I have compassion for others, even when they don’t deserve it. Like even briefly for a moment there for Steve Bannon, and we can both agree, he does not deserve empathy. And, in spite of the fact, that you now seem so sad and tragic … I know that you don’t deserve it either.

You have been a terrible man doing a horrible job as a United States Senator and doing the work for the people. You have failed in the job you were supposed to do. And I don’t think for a minute that you are surprised to read that.

You see the disastrous pillaging going on, right? Like Roman gladiators or Prince John’s men stealing from the poor until Robin Hood stopped them. Only in this round of whatever-you-want-to-call-this, there is no Robin Hood and his merrymen. All that can save us now is the character and courage to stand up and push back against all the crazy, cruel chaos we wake to every morning.

The US voted against Ukraine in the UN? Siding with our lifelong enemy Russia? You good with that? Thousands of govt employees getting axed? You good with that? A billionaire and a band of 20-year-old hackers storming the IRS? Yeah, I sleep better knowing that is going on. Wait, can I just not pay taxes this year? Like you don’t and Jeff and Elon and Mark don’t?

This is all because of you. This. Every last idea lifted from Project 25. Every last appointed judge who will do whatever their beholden position dictates.

It is because of you that we have the least qualified ‘cabinet’ that we have ever had. And I don’t even have to do research on that because this is about the same as if he picked ‘em up off the street, or from under a bridge or they won their posts on a game show. But this group goes beyond least qualified with the level of their darkness. What a miserable, I’d go so far as to say wretched, collection of hostile misfits. The new head of the FBI? He did not get sent to his room enough as a kid. And the vice president? The one who gave a speech in Germany admonishing them to embrace this great group of neo-Nazis. The Germans didn’t buy into that. They recognize evil.

Did you know that people are saying we’re losing our European allies? That is not good, Mitch. If you had a backbone or a sense of obligation or maybe felt a little sentimental with the end of trail in full view, couldn’t you do, something? Start encouraging the rest of the guys and gals to speak up to stop that from happening. You know this is not good, right?

I can’t speak for anyone else, but I like having European allies. This is not that big a world that we want to be enemies with any more of it. Are you losing sleep over that, the fact that there are certain people (and you know who I mean), making enemies of our friends?

That’s another reason I’m writing. Because all that you have allowed has become part of our daily lives. I can’t sleep through the night, I can’t stop paying attention. It’s too much Mitch. And again. It Is All Your Fault. And you have to do something to make up for it.

Remember when trump got impeached? Not the first time, the second time. Remember that? And at the end, it was all up to you whether he could or could never again run for president. All up to you, Mitch. And for a minute, the nation held its breath.

And you caved. You were so afraid of --- losing power? What? Getting him mad? Hurting his feelings. I would like to know what it is that prompted your big thumbs up – that opened the door to another run for the White House.

You have kids, Mitch? I guess you do. But then think maybe you were always a career man first and foremost, so not the greatest dad. Career always has seemed the most important to your observers.

But if you have kids, you might have worked hard to make this a better world for them. But nope. Are you okay with this, what you let happen here. Is this the better world that drove you into politics?

I’m going to have to say, that’s likely a hard no.

No. like you could have said to stop a senate vote for RKF Jr going forward. Everybody would have understood. You had polio and know how important vaccines are. Oh, in the end, the last round, the actual vote to approve him as head of the FDA, then you said no. A ceremonial no. But you could have stopped the vote from happening if you’d said no to moving forward.

Was that another case of caving to pressure. You used to be nervier. But never with more scruples. Or any cost to your conscience. Or so it appears. Is it all just being too afraid?

Vanity Fair just published an article about how some in Congress and the Senate are… scared. Currently being threatened with harm, injury, death. And here’s a tiny excerpt from back in the day when we were this close to : “When one Senator, a member of leadership, said he was leaning toward voting to convict, the others urged him to reconsider. You can’t do that, one of the said. Think of your personal safety, said another Think of your children. The senator eventually decided they were right”

But didn’t you have security? Or have enough money to hire security?

Apparently those threats are happening again, in calls or communications to anyone who wasn’t 100 % behind voting to appoint any of the cabinet members we now have to live with.

While you were thinking of your children, were you thinking of ours? Are you thinking about them during the talks to cut school lunches, Medicaid, deportations, National Parks, health care, gun control, placating Putin?

And again, this is all a result of you and the absence of the courage to do whats right. In our declining to put the greater good over your hunger for power, or fame or your fear of personal harm, you have harmed us. And this country. There is nothing you can do to protect us from this moment in history, and the ramifications of all those horrible choices that put us in this miserable stretch of time.

But listen, Mitch. You have some time left in you. And even though you will always be the guy who made one of history’s all time worst decisions, you could at least salvage a thread of your reputation, stitch together a tiny remnant of the legacy you shredded serving yourself instead of us.

And there is something you can do. For me. For everybody. What if between now and your last day in the Senate, what if you made every vote, a vote that would make life better for the American people. The people, not the ones who work in the senate or congress. Everyone else. All the rest of us. The 99%.

Please consider my suggestion. From now til you pack up your desk, vote yes if its going to help. Vote no if it’s going to hurt. Even though the first few may be an agonizing challenge to go against what’s expected, life is a challenge these days. For a lot of us. And it is all your fault.

So come on. You have a chance to alter your hideous reputation, to have the last paragraph in the chapter of the man who sold out America, read- “…but in his final days, he tried to do the right thing after all.” Once again, it’s all up to you.

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