I agree with the writer who recently submitted a letter to the editor titled “We Need to Take a Hard Look at the Direction of Our Country,” but for different reasons than those posed by the letter writer.
Let’s break his shotgun statement down to individual pellets.
“We have $5 gasoline … diesel at nearly $6.”
To think that the president or Congress raises fuel prices is more than a little naive.
That is totally in the hands of the oil companies, who are reporting record profits.
“Illegal immigration running rampant.”
Two points: 1. It is not illegal to seek refuge in the United States as a refugee. 2. The Republican Party has stonewalled any productive efforts to implement a more effective immigration policy since John McCain, a staunch proponent, died.
“No consequences in our legal system.”
I agree. The ex-president led a well-documented, multi-pronged effort to obstruct the peaceful transfer of power, including a violent attack on the U.S. Capitol building by armed followers threatening to kill Mike Pence and Congressional leaders. The response of the Republican Party? Meh. The party’s leader, the ex-president, even proposed a blanket pardon for planners and participants in the attack.
“No moral compass in our society anymore.”
The Republican Party lost its moral compass long ago with the decision to focus on amassing party power and to eschew actually governing. Obstruction to governing is more the party tactic, even to threatening the financial stability of the U.S. and the world economy by obstructing bills to fund the government operation or raise the needed debt limit.
As for who will do anything to get elected, the clown car of candidates who lost in the mid-term election showed that the GOP no longer bothers to vet their candidates. Even with a coordinated pre-election plan to undercut the validity of the voting process, the GOP tanked in an election that should have been a cake-walk. That Herschel Walker was considered by the GOP to be the best possible candidate from Georgia to serve in the U.S. Senate will be a stain long in fading. Do you want to talk about GOP Congressman-elect George Santos?
“I feel the need to be able to protect myself from my government” refers to the Democratic government we now have in place, rather than the fascist government that would have been imposed had the ex-president’s plan been successful. Marjorie Taylor Greene even brags that the insurrection would have been successful had she been in charge and the rioters were armed. So, from whom do private citizens really need to defend themselves?
This letter sounds more like the butt-hurt complaint of one being spanked with the vision of the Jan. 6 Select Committee and the Department of Justice doing their jobs to ensure that this never happens again.
David Eatwell
Chehalis
