Right-wing writers overlook the obvious

A recent letters to the editor section on Friday, May 2, contained two lengthy letters, each from right-wing authors. One letter, written by a frequent contributor, consisted of his usual clownish “Leftists-Are-All-Marxists” drivel. We don’t take him seriously. The other one however, was well-thought out and articulated by two co-writers. The problem is that we utterly disagree with their every premise!

They find it beyond comprehension that Republicans would decide to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid to fund tax cuts for the wealthy. Not because it would be a true crime against humanity, mind you…but only because “they know they would never get re-elected.”

We only wish! Republicans have promised to do this for as long as our 74-year-old brains can remember. In fact, if not for John McCain’s courage in 2017, there would be no health care coverage for millions of Americans today.

The co-writers also scoff at any comparisons of President Trump to Adolf Hitler. Well, Hitler was democratically elected after his supporters sacked and burned the German capitol building. He then blamed the Communists and the Jews for Germany’s problems, said “Only I can fix it” and started “disappearing” them to camps and prisons, with no due process. He stifled the arts and the media and had all news filter through Goebbels’ propaganda machine. Is this sounding familiar at all?

Finally, he declared himself “Fuehrer” and a united Germany did not have another free election for 53 years! We can’t believe this is happening in America either, co-writers…but reality tells us that it is and that we better stop it now.