For the Love of God Dig up John McCain

Only Republicans can save us from themselves

As the Republic continues to burn, the Resistance is protesting.

Democrats are resisting and wearing colors and holding signs saying this is not normal and speaking out and standing up and being thrown out and calling out lies and screaming for justice. Congressman (D-Texas) Al Green was thrown out of Trump’s Speech last night for standing, heckling, and waving his cane at Trump’s lies and his proposed cuts to Medicaid. Female Representatives wore red and pink to protest Trump’s anti-female policies.

A heroic woman in Vermont, Lucy Welch, used her Sugarbush snow report to rally the Resistance to protest JD Vance, who decided to go skiing after he humiliated Zelenzky in the Oval office in a petty shameful spectacle.

There was stoic humble Zelensky himself defending his Country at war against a Tyrant in Russia and a Tyrant in the White House.

Or the upside-down flag, a sign of dire distress, in Yosemite at El Capitan hung to protest National park employee firings.

These acts are noble. These are people risking harm to themselves for the good of the Nation. Still, these people do not wield the power to stop him.

I thought today about Marco Rubio vapidly slumped on the couch in the Oval Office as Trump and Vance berated President Zelensky for not being grateful enough for American aid and then for dressing in the clothing of a soldier, of all things. Rubio sat like a glassy-eyed prisoner whose soul had been mercilessly scooped out of his body, and there was no sense in moving or reacting because nothing worth living for was left anyway.

I thought of who we once were. I thought of John McCain’s infamous thumbs down vote to NOT repeal Obamacare, going against his party lines. I thought of him taking the microphone from a woman at his rally on the campaign trail who made racist remarks toward his opponent, Barack Obama. McCain defended Obama, saying he was a decent man with whom he just had fundamental differences of opinion. I thought of John McCain a Navy Pilot shot down and taken POW in Vietnam, starved, beaten, tortured, and locked in solitary confinement; yet he refused preferential treatment to be released earlier than the prisoners in sequence before him.

"We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears." ~ John McCain

I thought of sitting in the post theater at Ft. Rucker first discovering John McCain when my flight class went through Survival Evasion Resistance Escape (SERE) school and how I grew to love him. I thought of when I was in grad school and cried the morning I read the news on my phone that he was dying of brain cancer and I sat down to write an ode to him—A fiercely left-wing democrat writing an ode to a Republican, just try to imagine that today.

Mostly, today I yearned for the John McCains. All of whom have been extricated. I believe I understand how bad it will get without them. How far the yes men will allow this President to steer us into the ditch of lawless dictatorship. We’re already in trade wars with Canada, Mexico, and China. We’ve aligned ourselves with Russia and isolated ourselves from NATO and Europe. We’re on a path to seize Gaza, Greenland, and Canada by force. We’ve cut off aid to the world. It won’t be long before the military is used on American civilians, the protesters.

Who on the Right will stand up for the values the American people actually elected them to uphold? John McCain endured so much torture he could never again lift his arms above his shoulders. He lost a presidential election and carried on being a man respected on both sides of the aisle. Who on the right will sacrifice themselves to do what’s right and dignified no matter the personal consequences? I’m looking at you, Secretary Rubio. I’m looking at you to become the man you can be. What further travesties will have to be witnessed to pump souls back into the living, breathing bodies of Republicans? To replace the Republican yes men, not with Democrats, but with Republican women and men who will dig up the integrity of John McCain, inject his bravery and tenacity into their veins and become people who will get up off a couch and demand we treat good humans with dignity again and defend our allies from harm.

“The political tactics of division and slander are not our values. They are corrupting influences on religion and politics, and those who practice them in the name of religion or in the name of the Republican Party or in the name of America shame our faith, our party and our country.”- John McCain

I call on Republicans to dig up John McCain. Exhume him. Grind his bone and consume it. Find the courage within you to save this Country before it’s too late.