How Nancy Pelosi Tore Up the Last Shred of Decency in American Politics

Pelosi rips State of the Union addressPresident Trump's State of the Union address can be best described as a mixed bag, coming fresh out of being acquitted on the impeachment charges that the house democrats brought against him, he pulled no punches in making his thoughts on these events clear.

Moving beyond this piece of political theater, there were things in the address that are just plain good for the nation, accomplishments that should be recognized not because of the person delivering it, but because of what it means for the people. Lowest unemployment numbers in decades, all-time low unemployment rates for African Americans and women, an economy that is growing rather than shrinking. These are wins for the people, not wins for a particular person or party.

It has become a sad precedent that some representatives have decided that their personal and political grievances with their fellow representatives outweighs the overall good of the nation they are all, supposed to be, working to better. It is a sad reality to see senators and congresspeople behaving like inattentive 5th graders in a history classroom, rather than states-people sitting in the hallowed halls where slavery and Jim Crow were abolished, where women secured their right to vote, where America decided to put an end to the atrocities of Nazi Germany and the axis of evil. In these halls that do not demand respect by there mere existence, but are granted it through the good, dedicated, and honorable work that was, and is, currently engaged in for the benefit of the people that built it. 

As an American citizen whose people built those halls and entrusted them to the future to continue to build and improve upon those halls to entrust to the generations that will come after me, it has been a task to sit and watch as Senators and House members conduct themselves in a manner more befitting of a zoo than the people's house.

Watching as members sit stone-faced, pouting over petty transgressions, sleeping, playing on their phones, refusing to applaud national accomplishments and honors being bestowed upon citizens, and generally being disrespectful as the status of the nation is presented to the people has become a sad part of the degradation of the American political system.

When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi decided that the current level of disrespect for the house of the American people was not satisfactory enough to express her personal contempt for the President, she took it upon herself to rip up the copy of the address that was given to her. This action encapsulated the state of the civility and respect for the American people that is held by the career politicians holding these offices. Rotted away. Nancy's hatred for the president, and the citizens that he represents, superseded all decorum, respect for the institutions that the founders laid out, and her countless predecessors worked to uphold and build upon. 

Her tantrum was so bad that it made President Trump look like the adult in the room, and as the de-facto leader of the democratic party, the speaker's actions reflect poorly on every single one of them that did not stand up to her immediately and censure her utter disrespect. Now it is weeks out from the incident, and people are leaving the democratic party because it is embarrassing to be in a party where the leadership is in a competition to be the biggest petulant brat and has lost the political sense to even pretend to care about the people of this nation.