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Instead of arguing facts, when right-wing ideologues disagree, they crab walk, spinning fallacy, spit off-topic accusations or name call, which is what Profilet, Gudmunson and others practice, instead of tackling specific issues — too many letters, the courts legislate, liberal media and Swiftboat-style ad hominems, like “hyphenated hyperbolist.” Such banal stuff gets printed, when it should not, attesting to the editor’s openness.
That we others write so is to ring alarms that current governance is crushing America’s future as growing numbers of citizens, many of whom cannot read, write nor count, will be burdened with the huge costs of an illicit war.
If 1776-era conservatives had been the majority, America would not exist and many, if not all, our now-revered patriots would have been hanged. Wonderful modern conservatives now spin themselves as more “American” than the rest of us. Galling!
Like the military, conservatism is dictatorial and selfish. Prejudices are cloaked as pseudo-science, patriotism and outright threats. Anyone criticizing such corruption are “liberals” — which I am not — as though liberal is somehow evil.
We who complain find no morning humor in those who support those who have broken America and applaud government’s mindless blundering.
Just as our republic’s founders fought injustice, we see single-issue conservatives as liable for criminal governance. We follow the path of the framers, the Minutemen, Valley Forge and Lexington to resist wretchedness. Spinning our efforts otherwise is morally corrupt.
The American majority understands flag-waving, fear-mongering crabbing for the attempts to stifle dissent they are. As Edmund Burke observed, “All that is needed for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.”
If we denounce leaders, it is because they do nothing to alter a dismal status quo. If our silence would make your day, your amusement is bitter, like the jackbooted governance that is destroying this nation.
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