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they are there for a reason, they are what has saved our fragile democracy through trying times in our history. I am writing to you to ask that you not relinquish your legislative power to the executive branch Trump Presidency. We need all our checks and balances, love into slavery." --Octavia E. Butler, (Parable of the Talents) There is a wise statement from a writer that expresses this best: "Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be con your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you trolled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up