If not for the Elevator, would the People be Heard?

  I do not like it when we are uncivil with each other. I do not like it when protesters are overly abusive of others. But, I am not so against the protesting of the Kavanaugh appointment as are others.

  I do not know all the specifics of how the protesters have conducted themselves. I did watch the video of Sen. Hatch's confrontation at the elevator, and judged it as quite a put-down that he told them he would talk to them when they grew up. They were perhaps uncivil, but so was he.

  Here's the thing: I would hope we don't move away from allowing the people to approach their senators and representatives at the elevator and other such places. I, actually, find it refreshing that they can be approached in such a manner. Think of the protesters who plead with Jeff Flake, thus influencing him to call for an FBI investigation. He didn't reject them. He didn't lambaste them for approaching him, or for interrupting his quiet time as he went to the elevator.

  And, why should he? Why should any representative? Our congressional members should be accessible. We should be able to approach them. If we can't get an appointment with them in their offices, then we should be able to approach them at the elevator.

  I don't believe in isolating our leaders so they cannot be approached by the people. I do not believe in shutting the people down, in not giving them a venue to reach the governing officials.

  Sometimes, public officials can get so isolated from sources they do not want to hear that they do not hear the truth. Though the truth is blaring loudly outside their offices, it never reaches inside their offices. It is there for their ears to hear it, but their ears are too heavy. I think of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and of how they called for a second hearing, but the hearing -- lacking all the witnesses -- was only a show, and was designed so that it would not stop the nomination. I think of the FBI investigation, and how we were told from the start it would be a limited investigation and how only nine people were interviewed.

   We got the promised limited investigation. 

   I think of how before the hearing and before the investigation, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell promised to "plow through" the obstacles to get Kavanaugh nominated. And, with the way the hearings were set up, and they way the investigation was set up, its clear that is exactly what happened.

   You don't plow right through justice, yet they did.

   Sometimes, voices don't reach us. The thought that a grave injustice is being done is out there, but our ears are heavy and they will not hear. Sometimes, it takes a loud enough voice to jar us into reality.

   That loud-enough voice is the voice of the people. That voice that can jar elected officials back to reality is the voice of the people. It's the voice of those who approach them at the elevators. The voice is loud and clear outside their offices, but not inside their offices. So, you go to where they can hear you. 

  Oh, perhaps they mostly won't listed,the same,  but there will be times they will.

  For government to be good, it needs to have checks and balances. Government that hides within itself, and shields itself from the people, will only be self-serving. We have witnessed this in the Kavanaugh confirmation. The leaders wanted so much for Kavanaugh to be approved that they did not allow for due process, and did not allow for just process. Their interest came first -- and begone with anything that might come between them and their goal.

   Let them have enough citizens standing up to them at the elevators, however, and the voice of justice might reach their ears.