by Mikael Rudolph, Co-Founder of Impeach for Peace
Last month I helped organize a protest/appeal at a Minneapolis appearance by House Judiciary Committee Chair John Conyers’ Jr. (D-MI) at a Town Hall meeting to drum up support and educate those in attendance about his proposed United States National Health Insurance Act (HR 676) sponsored by my Representative in Minnesota’s 5th District, Keith Ellison.
My perspective, as well as those of my fellow ImpeachforPeace.org members was that as troubled and ineffectual as the American health care system was, the health of our Constitution and our Democratic Republic was of far greater import and in far more urgent need of attention.
While my concern for the future of our nation and passion for defending our nation’s Constitutional form of government against the domestic enemies to it now in power hasn’t lessened, October’s events in my personal life have certainly affected my vantage on health care.