‘MUST READ’ BEFORE VOTING

My better half gave me a “required reading” as a Christmas gift.

NOT only required reading for the old Lobsterman, but for each of you as well.

As I have been harping on, for the better part of the last six-plus months, 2024 is a critical election for the nation.

Sometime earlier this morning – 3:15 or there about – I finished reading Oath and Honor by Liz Cheney.

Before I go an inch farther, GET A COPY FOR YOURSELF!!!!!!

Cheney’s new memoir covers from when she was still in Congress. It must be said, a lot separates Liz Cheney from the average Republican politician.

In her memoir it’s clear how unusual her position was in late 2020 – a true insider who was also listening to and believing what was going on with Donald John Trump and the conservative base. That combination seems to have inspired her turning every key available to stave off Boy Orange‘s efforts to subvert the outcome of the election and inspired her overpowering anger toward Kevin “Squatter” McCarthy.

How many people besides Liz Cheney could help organize the writing of a letter emphasizing the importance of a peaceful transfer of power that was signed by every living defense secretary!!! and published on January 3, 2021??! 

A point of crucial significance, Cheney NEVER thought Trump would just fade away. And while she’s now writing with the benefit of hindsight, part of the reason she clearly understood Trump was she was actually listening!!! to people at different levels of Republican politics in ’20. As one reads Oath and Honor, this blaring realization becomes cleaner and cleaner with each turned page.

Since 1/6, Cheney has emphasized the way that institutions require the people in them to actively make choices rather than passively accept events. Good norms and procedures are meant to guide people toward moral and responsible actions so NO one individual is required to act with any particular heroism.

The cost of opposing Trump or even being perceived as opposing him has increased over the years. This is clearest with the people who, through NO fault of their own, ended up falling into the breach against Trump, like the election officials and workers in Georgia and Arizona who became the subjects of threats, loss of jobs and conspiracy theories.

And, as Liz Cheney found out herself – being defeated for her reelection to Congress by an election denier.