​REPUBLICAN SILENCE IS TREACHERY

It is time for Republicans to be ousted. 
 
The President of the United States is plotting with Republican operatives, governors, state legislatures, staffers, his cadre of believers, to undermine election results.  It is a clever plot.
Create chaos on election day.  Declare ballots invalid and the vote count unreliable.
 
Proclaim the election rigged and substitute the electors chosen by the voters with a set of electors appointed by the Republican state legislature.   Pennsylvania is working on this.  Other GOP led states are considering similar actions.
Not a peep out of a Republican.
 
The President of the United States is calling for an Army of right wing extremist vigilantes to poll watch. The real purpose is voter intimidation and suppression.
Not one word from a Republican.
 
These groups of gun-toting thugs can be found on the streets of Portland and Chicago, Kenosha, Philadelphia, and other cities causing, disruptions and outright brawls. These vigilantes are warming up for civil war. That is what they will foment if given a chance.
Not an utterance from a Republican.
 
Silence from the Republican party as it obediently follows their President in making fun of masks and downplaying the pandemic.
 
Silence from the Republican party as it rejects compromise on a stimulus bill that would keep people from dying, jobs alive, businesses open, and people working,
 
Silence from the Republican Party as President Trump lauds Putin and denigrates our institutions and agencies.
 
And now as the election approaches, when the most precious right Americans have is about to be exercised, SILENCE from the Republicans as Trump sows fear into the electorate and encourages intimidation and chaos at the ballot box. 
 
In the oath of office taken by State and Federal representatives each swears to protect the Constitution.   Their silence injures our most precious document.  Each swears their allegiance.  Their silence is infidelity.
 
They must go.