Two days ago the
local fish wrap published two letters which viciously (that’s hyperbole) attacked
our hero - Lex. Feeling threatened and needing a safe space, Lex
retreated to the survival bunker here on the compound and fired off a response
to the savage (hyperbole again) attacks.
The response follows. The cruel
missives egregiously and unwarrantedly taking Lex to task follow that.
The letter:
As long as it’s
not an obituary, I’ve always been of the mind that it’s nice to see your name
in print. Come to think about it, as
long as it’s not some after death out of body experience, even the exception
would be cool. So imagine my excitement
when I find I’m the subject of not one but two rebuttals in the letters section
of the 19 Dec JG.
First Ms.
Candioto. Schadenfreude best describes
my emotion with regard to the results of the Presidential Election and the
reaction to it by an increasingly unhinged segment of the Democrat Party. There are several translations of the German
word “schadenfreude”. None of them
include “angry”. Why would I be
angry? My guy won. If you want to see real anger, look at
Democrat filth and intimidation directed at Republican electors preceding the
Electoral College vote.
My letter was
directed at two elements of the Democrat Party: a) Polite well-meaning
Democrats who “bleat” about the Clinton winning the popular vote as if they are
ignorant of the role that the Electoral College plays in electing our president;
and b) “reactionaries [who]
insist on calling anyone who challenges their lame-brained opinions a racist, a
sexist, a homophobe, an Islamophobe, or the catchall for those terms made
famous by Clinton herself – ‘deplorables’”.
If you are not a member
of either of those accurately described groups, take a powder and lay
down. You are absolved.
For Mr.
Bauer: When the Constitutional
Convention adjourned in 1787, Ben Franklin was reportedly asked what form of
government the delegates had given us.
Franklin replied, “A Republic, if you can keep it.” But what does that “ignorant” boob know? So fill in the blank of this once well-known
phrase; “I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and
to the_______ for which it stands…” Class?
Anyone? Mr. Bauer? Anyone?
Hint: It is NOT “representative democracy”. But, you say potato and I say tuber.
As I am already over
the word limit, let me just say the laundry list of rantings and
unsubstantiated accusations that reads like a manifesto found in the backwoods
cabin of a serial killer in the remainder of Mr. Bauer’s angry letter are as nonsensical
and the logic is as flawed as his understanding of what constitutes a
republican form of government.
The vicious attacks:
The best for America
As a lifelong
Democrat who did vote for Hillary Clinton, I must respond to Doug
Schumick’s Dec. 11 letter “Name-calling is all Democrats have.”
While I can
refute each of the writer’s inflammatory accusations (such as all Democrats
must have slept through civics class), I choose to avoid the mean-spirited tone
of the letter.
Upon his election
win, Donald Trump promised that he would be a president
for all Americans. His statement was full of hope, and I wait
patiently for him to show that he will keep that promise.
Letters such as
Schumick’s, filled with disdain for anyone who did not vote for Trump, are
really hate speech aimed only to continue divisiveness in our
country.
Schumick should
open his heart, let his anger go and join his fellow
citizens, Democrats included, who want only the best for America.
Kathy Candioto
Fort Wayne
Trump
has already used up all his chances
This letter is in
response to Doug Schumick (Dec. 11) and Ed Keller (Dec. 12). They need to get
out of their overstuffed recliners, turn off Fox News, wake up and smell the
coffee. They also need to start fact-checking before making ignorant
statements. For the record, one thing Donald Trump will never receive is the
popular vote.
1. The United
State is not a republic but a representative democracy.
2. The Electoral
College was founded in 1787. Members were elected, not appointed. The reasoning
was electors in each state capitol were given more information than the general
public. Because of the slowness of transportation and news delivery, it was
easier to reach this group than the state population. The Electoral College of
that era was put in place with the hope that all popular votes would be
taken into consideration. In the beginning several changes were made to the
college as elections took place. The Founding Fathers were not gods, saints,
prophets or geniuses. They were simply men striving to make sure that every
individual had a say in the elected office of the president and vice president.
3. While it is
true the college was supposed to be based on the states’ population, that is no
longer the case. A simple test is to take the population of South Dakota and
divide it into the population of California. You will see that California
should have more than 150 votes, not the 55 they now have.
4. The Carrier
deal that Donald Trump so pompously claimed saved more than 1,100 jobs is
actually only around 800 jobs. Of course, nothing was done about the 600 jobs
in Huntington or the corporate jobs in Indianapolis. But 1,100 jobs sounds
better than 800 for post-election pep rallies. He must have these pep rallies
that most of us gave up in high school to stroke his narcissistic ego. So
Indiana was thrown under the Trump bus at the cost of $7 million.
5. Democrats are
not whining, we are attempting to show that more than 2.5 million votes
were not considered in this election. As for name-calling, anyone who has dealt
with mental health issues would agree this man suffers from multiple mental
illnesses and is not functioning like I hope you and I are.
6. My America is
the greatest country in the world! It is a paradox to state that you are going
to “make America great again.” I also believe it is a fool who would say he is
so smart that he doesn’t need daily intelligence briefings. Seeing what he has
already done in the last four weeks, he has had all the chances he gets
from me as to whether he is a businessman or politician.
7. The only
promise he needs to keep is to “drain the swamp” in Washington, D.C. I think we
should wait until February to do this and that way Trump, his lapdog Mike Pence
and his outrageous Cabinet will be there. Then pull the plug and get rid of all
the “swamp scum” with one swoosh.
Thom Bauer
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