This is the face of courage. I see the American flag behind her.
My eyes refocus upon her features. My mind has been made to go a great many strange places these days. The American flag, the flag of the country I was born in, now creates a sense of anxiety and dread in me.
I remember being made to say the 'Pledge of Allegiance' before each class in elementary school. We stood up, placed our hands over our hearts, and said the allegiance. Every day.
Now the flag represents something more nefarious.
Her blond hair, the trademark of the New Republic, it causes a groaning uneasiness in me.
Liz Cheney is one of the last of the Old Republic left. This is a woman whose policies I don't agree with, as she is the Old Republic and I am of the Democracy in the days of sanity, but she is still saying the 'Pledge of Allegiance', she is embodying the last vestiges of the dying relationship between The Old Republic and Democracy which had the ability to come together for the good of the Nation. Like Adam Schiff, let her face go down in history as real bravery and of an era. The Old Republic era had the soul to get Nixon to step down for the good of the country they still believed in.
Country over man.
