You should be tired of this political circus

The State of the Union address will be a replay of greatest hits.

There will be use of simplified linguistics, with vocabulary at a fourth grade level delivered in short punchy sentences. Plenty of repetition to hammer home key points in an effort to get an emotional reaction. There will be ranting that will not stop, an effort to tap into your frustration and fears promising simple solutions to complex problems only the Republicans can resolve, couched in patriotism.

While replaying the greatest hits, you will hear “greatest, best ever, tremendous, beautiful, fantastic, totally, believe me, it’s that simple, very, very bad, never before, you have never seen anything like it, and terrible.” There will be a mention of the 2020 election being stolen and ending eight wars that should have won the Nobel Peace Prize while blaming Joe Biden for the situation we find ourselves in. There will definitely be talk about securing the border, making war on Venezuelan gangs, deporting dangerous criminals, aka illegal immigrants, and a note regarding how successful ICE is in detaining and deporting those terrible criminals.

In all of this, there has been positive improvement in the economy (aka stock market) while average Americans face increased grocery prices. There will be citations of nonexistent polling with the best numbers ever, without providing references. The State of the Union will be used to continue to blame others for any perceived failures instead of an effort at unification.

There will be the touting of the stock market, gas prices, record high employment, and aggressive international policy while ignoring or glossing over the fact billionaires have increased wealth by $1.5 trillion while wealthy Republican political donors continue to increase by a minimum of $380 billion.

The reality is your food prices, utility bills, housing costs, health care costs are up. Many of you have lost your health insurance. They have added approximately $10 trillion to the national debt while cutting $1 trillion in taxes for the top 1%.

Suggesting Bitcoin be used as monetary exchange rather than the dollar is ludicrous. Current constitutional norms are being broken by appointing federal prosecutors who are not qualified, tariffs are being used as leverage when it is actually Congress who holds that power and the creation of a personal law-enforcement agency that answers only to itself.

The state department, the office of budget and management, the FBI, has fired independent counsel while ignoring federal judges’ rulings. I would be unfair if I said the Democrats had all the answers.

The truth is the Democratic Party has had its own version of corruption, false accusations, mud sling and you name it. But the truth is I long for a truly bipartisan government that works on behalf of all its citizens. That is how it works best, and that is what should be promoted at the State of the Union.

You should be tired of this circus.

Ed Gallagher

Coshocton