Letters to the Editor: August 2018

At President Trump’s recent meeting in Helsinki, Finland, Putin once again denied any involvement “by the state,” in the 2016 presidential election.

Trump called the U. S. government investigation of Russian interference “a disaster for our country,” “false news” and a “witch hunt.”

Instead of a diplomatic triumph, Trump blamed the U.S. for hostility between the two countries. He also ignored Mueller’s12 Russian indictments and continued his pattern of praising Putin, essentially giving Putin a penalty-free green light to continue Russian intelligence activities against America.

Trump’s final insult to America was his demeaning and reckless statement that “thanks to U. S. foolishness and stupidity, our relationship has never been worse.”

America’s president has become a national security risk, an apologist for Putin’s espionage against the United States of America. He has aided a known enemy who has just attacked one of the most sacred of our institutions and successfully helped President Putin in his continuing efforts to destabilize and polarize America.

In siding with Putin and Russia, Trump is taking the word of a former KGB agent over the assessment of all U.S. Intelligence Agencies, over two administrations, Republican and Democratic, and the Republican Senate Intelligence Committee.

Donald Trump believes the Russian President. And doesn’t believe the United States Intelligence Community. It’s all right there in his own statements. Amazing, terrifying and treacherous.

Trump is merely a skillfull, manipulative “gaslighter” and con-artist who intentionally appeals to our worst inner qualities because he believes that this is who and what 51 percent of us are.

Namely angry, lonely, fearful, bitter, resentful, spiteful, selfish and self-absorbed cold-hearted haters, some of whom fear projections that one day over 50 percent of the USA will be non-white.

He plays all of us for fools and suckers because he does not believe most of the stupid things that he cleverly spoons out to us.

He must laugh at us every day, both his supporters as well as his critics — at least the ones who think he is sincere.

America is in the final stages of transformation into a police and surveillance state that so closely mimics the Orwellian Big Brother police and serveillance state inside British author George Orwell’s dystopian sci-fi novel “1984,” that it’s easy to believe that our Big Brother government in Washington used “1984” as a blueprint for creating an Orwellian Big Brother police ans surveilance satate in post-911 America!

The woman’s revolution and LGBTQ should be put on the back-burner and all Americans should join forces to wage a second American revolution to overthrow our tyrants and despotic Big Brother government in Washington.

And to restore our liberty and freedom and privacy and to create a new government of the People, by the People and for the People, a government that both respects and protects our liberty and freedom and privacy... a government that constantly seeks to increase our liberty and freedom and privacy.

Once the people’s revolution has overthrown the tyranny and restored our liberty and freedom and privacy and created a government which preserves, protects and defends our liberty and freedoms and privacy, women can return to waging a women’s revolution and gays can return to fighting for LGBTQ rights.

But to fight for women’s rights and gay rights now — while our government is turning our country into a police state — would be counter-revolutionary because it would take our minds and hearts off the revolution!!!

I attended a rally for David Wilson Brown, the Democratic candidate for the 10th District U.S. House of Representatives seat held by Republican Patrick McHenry, and I want to say the man is real.

He is sincere and dedicated to decency, fairness, honesty and to representing common people.

I enjoyed seeing him dance spontaneously and affectionately with his grade-school-age daughter in an inconspicuous corner of the room as music played, convincing me of his authentic good humanity.

I watched him hold back tears speaking of his dedication to making a world his two young children could feel the same optimism that past generations have taken for granted, but now is threatened by growing cynicism and corruption, by economic unfairness, a degrading environment, and the unraveling of democracy so that the powerful and wealthy can grab more power and wealth.

I saw genuine anger at his opponent, at President Trump, and the Republican Party who are undermining our democratic, environmental, and regulatory safeguards creating an American oligarchy of the wealthy and corporations.

He’s not slick, nor a natural public speaker, but as he spoke, his sincerity took over and he grew in eloquence and won my heart and the hearts of those attending.

He’ll fight for people’s right to healthcare, educational opportunity, 21st Century good-paying jobs, the environment and an honest government that is the servant of the people and not the wealthy.

It will be difficult for him to win in the dishonestly gerrymandered 10th District that snakes from Gastonia to the southeast portion of Asheville (breaking up the Democratic-leaning city), designed to rig the election for Republican victory, but it can be done if honest people support this honest man.

EDITOR’S NOTE: The following letter to the editor originally appeared in Asheville Citizen Times.

As one with the mileage to remember when Asheville’s daily attempted journalistic balance, I grieve today’s bias devotions.

Affirmation of that transition can be found in John Boyle’s Sunday (July 15) article on Sheriff Duncan’s concerns with the ever-expanding “liberal-socialist” leanings of his party.

Predictably, no conservative voices were cited. The same tried-and-true progressive professor was misused to affirm Boyle’s conclusions and dependable Republican Party vilification.

My conclusion – this journalist is as wrong in his course as Sheriff Duncan is right in reconsidering his.

In suggesting “Republican extremism” leaves our good Sheriff nowhere to go, Mr. Boyle reliably demonstrated his inability to count beyond the number two. “Our side is good – the other is bad” is not a sophisticated model of political discernment. Republicans are better at math – we can count to three.

We recognize the radicalism of today’s Democratic Party; consistently reject our own extremists; and embrace standards of time-tested normality in the middle.

The C-T is so busy defending the expanding irrationality of the liberal-progressive-socialist movement, they’ve lost their ability to even spell N-O-R-M-A-L.

While the Democratic Party doubles down on open borders, men in women’s bathrooms, abortion, gun control, anti-Christian and anti-police sentiments, the Republican Party is rejecting these extremist positions for something better – values that have made America a beacon of inspiration to the world.

As one recognizing the crucial importance of a daily paper devoted to journalistic balance and integrity over advocacy, I look forward to a day when the C-T can again count to three.