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WEST VALLEY VIEW NEWS | SEPTEMBER 22, 2021
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Responding to J.D. Hayworth Editor: This is my opinion in response to the piece by J.D. Hayworth titled “Finishing the job for his predecessor.” I have been an avid political junkie for about three decades. It’s important to study our past to understand how we got to this twisted present where up is down and lies are accepted as truth depending on one’s own version of reality. Reading Mr. Hayworth’s piece, I find the typical distorted, veiled right-wing projection fantasy regarding President Obama’s intentions and what progressive policies stand for. Republicans really need to stop demonizing the opposition. Nobody is gunning for the end of democracy. If there is any evidence of that, it’s coming from today’s Republican Party. When it comes to elections, Republicans were never nice and accepting of anything, Mr. Hayworth. The endless partisan audit we are witnessing now is more than enough proof of that. Also, if anyone has been politicizing the pandemic, it’s the right and its campaign to actually shame people into not wearing a mask or getting vaccinated. Also, why are Republicans so obsessed with President Obama. It’s like you people lost your minds when he was elected. You blame him for divisiveness when, in actuality, it was the right’s inability to accept him as president. Let’s talk about the Republicans
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and their polarizing tactics for a moment now. As your piece aptly demonstrates, the Republican Party has been lying and demonizing Democrats for decades. The reality is Republicans have no choice but to lie. I mean you’re not going to win elections telling working people that your big plan is to just cut taxes on rich people and privatize everything your wealthy constituents see no value in subsidizing. Then once you raise the national debt due to repeated deficits as a result of a lack of revenue, you cry conservative mantra against spending and raising taxes. Of course, these cries only show up when the Democrats get elected to clean up the mess. So, your party lies and pushes propaganda focused on cultural trigger issues and blaming everyone but the wealthy who pull your strings when you’re in office. Most of us get it. Your brainwashed voters are easily manipulated and triggered but in the minority, and now you seek ways to continue to win. This is born out in the fact that all your recent presidential wins have lost the popular vote. It appears now your party is seeking ways to obstruct the ability for people to easily vote, gerrymander districts and pass laws to circumvent the will of the voters if need be, all under the guise of voter security and concerns of fraud. Republicans have been doing this for decades, crying voter fraud and dead people voting. Of course, nothing of substance has ever come to light. It’s
more lies to give your party the edge for minority rule. It’s a strategy you’re playing out now in Arizona with that wacky partisan hack audit. It’s a strategy your party conveniently appropriated after Trump screamed “cheaters” because he lost his election. Trump’s childish sore loser rant went to the limits of treason, culminating in a large group of his brainwashed supporters attempting what amounts to a coup on his behalf. Minority rule is undemocratic, and we live in a democratic republic. Republicans love to say it’s a republic like it doesn’t involve democracy. It does, though, so that’s another Republican lie, aka talking point, to try to validate their need to rule in the minority. The reality is your party sees the writing on the wall for its demise. This nation is rapidly becoming a diverse majority of Democrat-leaning voters. We understand that your party’s new march to authoritarianism is the only way to maintain power and control. My question is this: How many of you actually believe the nonsense you push, and how many of you know you’re pedaling lies? Do you include yourself in
the opinion that Americans with different political points of view fear the end of the USA as a democratic republic if progressive policies were put in place? Those are the same policies we had from the 1930s to 1980 that yielded the largest middle class the country ever had, much to the chagrin of the Republicans and their rich benefactors. If you do share this fear, I feel sorry for you, as you have been conned just like your constituents. This isn’t hard to believe, because I know many who were young adults in the Reagan era and have this distorted view of how this country should be run. I see these Republicans as the first generation to be conned. Before them, the country knew what Republicans stood for. Before them, the voting public has gone through the great republican depression. Yes, it was actually called that back in the day. They had your party’s number and knew what your party was about, which is limiting democracy by reducing the middle class to nothing. They and you, for a certain period of your life, benefited from the progressive policies Democrats put in place in the
