Re: George
Smith’s letter “Politics must catch up to 21st century reality” of
Dec 9, 2019.
Smith, a truly ill-informed person, ironically
reminds us that “an ill-informed person is easily led astray.” Indeed.
Smith calls the system that has led to the most
successful country in the history of the world “antiquated.” Really?
Compared to what? There’s a means whereby the system can be
changed. Change it.
Smith wants someone to explain “how we got a
president like we have now.” Well, first
one would hop into the Wayback Machine, go back 60 years and start to populate Caligula,
D.C. with all manner of self-serving politicians who promise one thing and do
another.
Then one would allow politicians to establish a system whereby they
are able to exempt themselves from their own laws and setup a system whereby
90+% of the corrupt politicians win re-election.
Then one would have the two political parties
gradually merge into two separate wings of the same bird.
Then one of the
parties would nominate the most corrupt, lying, thieving, lazy, rape enabling, unlikeable
and unelectable candidate in the history of the Republic while the other
nominated a populist who irritated both parties and most especially their lemmings
in the MSM.
Then one would make sure
that novice populist candidate understood the rules of electoral politics - in
place since 1788 - while his “politically savvy” opponent ignored those rules –
and vwa’la you get PDJT and it’s a beautiful thing.
Then ill-informed people would blame
the process - which actually favored their flawed candidate – for their butt
whippin’.
Smith claims a Republicans could run a mule in
Indiana and win. Yeah, well then sure,
if Hoosiers prefer Republicans right now, Democrats should never try to understand
why. Instead they should just change the
“antiquated” rules to make sure that Hoosier votes don’t count as much the modern
socialist hipsters’ on both coasts. That
makes sense…right.
Smith calls the good ol’ US of A “the most corrupt
county on the face of the Earth.” Yet right here, in the middle of all of the
corruption, he remains. He’s like most
leftists who threaten to leave the country if this person or that person is
elected, then they stay put whining like cut dogs for years on end until it
becomes like so much white noise to sane people living normal lives.
Politics must catch up
to 21st century reality
Eric Hinkle's Nov. 25
letter calling out Diane Mory's comments about the popular vote was almost
amusing.
First, name me another
country on the face of the earth that has a system like ours. Answer, none.
This antiquated system
leaves most of the people in our state with no voice at all. You could run a
mule in Indiana, and if he was a Republican he would win.
Explain to me how we
got a president like we have now. As a state that relies on industry
and farming as our leading employers, you would think they would lean more to
the left. Not so. Most of our large industries have left our fair city and we
pay our farmers whether they plant or not. I know my grandparents never got
bailed out for bad years or for not planting at all.
When you rely on the
medical field as your largest employer, you become another Rochester,
Minnesota. Everything in our city is named after a medical facility.
The only way to clean
this mess up is to get term limits and put into place the popular vote. Get the
lifer politicians out of Congress (both parties) and get rid of the graft.
It is hard to call other countries corrupt when we are the most corrupt country
on the face of the earth. There is so much money here and so many backroom
deals it is difficult to point fingers elsewhere.
In modern society it
should be majority rule, not concentrating on certain areas of the country to
further your agenda. The Constitution was written many years ago and has
been amended many times since. You can't keep living in the past. It is
past time to make the changes needed to keep up with the present.
Remember, an
ill-informed person is easily led astray.
George D. Smith
New Haven
Re: Leonard Helfrich’s letter “Trump values opposite of US
exceptionalism” of Dec 7, 2019
Leonard Helfrich submits a 98% fact/logic free letter
and as the JG, as it is wont to do, prints the pant load for no other reason than it fits
the JG’s leftist agenda.
Helfrich laments PDJT’s pointing out that a lot of
the people illegally flooding into the country are not nice people. Many in fact are rapists and murders. According
to a 2017 Huffington Post article, 80% of Central American women and girls
crossing into the US from Mexico are raped on their journey north. So, Mr.
Helfrich, who’s doing the raping?
With regard to Helfrich's worries about PDJT’s
treatment of John McCain. Candidate Trump said the following: “He was a war
hero because he was captured. I like
people who weren’t captured.” In
artful? Yes. Unnecessary?
Probably. Inaccurate? No.
With regard to PDJT’s support for neo-Nazi’s and
white supremacist, Mr. Helfrich just reruns the same tired leftist lies
perpetuated by corrupt fake news merchants.
Here’s what PDJT really said:
Trump:
"Excuse me, excuse me. They didn’t put themselves -- and you had some very bad people in that group,
but you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides. You had
people in that group. Excuse me, excuse me. I saw the same pictures as you did.
You had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down of, to
them, a very, very important statue and the renaming of a park from Robert E.
Lee to another name."
Reporter:
"George Washington and Robert E. Lee are not the same."
Trump:
"George Washington was a slave owner. Was George Washington a slave owner?
So will George Washington now lose his status? Are we going to take down
-- excuse me, are we going to take down statues to George Washington? How about
Thomas Jefferson? What do you think of Thomas Jefferson? You like him?"
Reporter:
"I do love Thomas Jefferson."
Trump:
"Okay, good. Are we going to take down the statue? Because he was a
major slave owner. Now, are we going to take down his statue?
"So you know what, it’s
fine. You’re changing history. You’re changing culture. And you had people
-- and I’m not talking about the
neo-Nazis and the white nationalists -- because they should be condemned
totally. But you had many people in
that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists. Okay? And the press has
treated them absolutely unfairly.
"Now, in the other group also, you had some fine people. But you also had
troublemakers, and you see them come with the black outfits and with the
helmets, and with the baseball bats. You had a lot of bad people in the other
group."
Did candidate Trump get caught engaging in vulgar
locker room TALK about women? Yes.
Absolutely. But PDJT’s sexual
exploits were well-known to voters and predated his inauguration. Democrat hero Bill Clinton is a well-known perjurer
and sexual predator who used the Oval Office to diddle the White House staff
and assault unsuspecting women. He was a
regular guest on convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s Lolita Express and
maintained close ties with fellow sex predator Harvey Weinstein all while his
wife ignored and enabled the creepy liaisons.
A search of the JG achieves failed to turn up Mr.
Helfrich’s letter condemning the Clintons. Hypocrisy?
Of course it is, but then Mr. Helfrich is a leftist and hypocrisy is
their mainstay.
With regard to SEAL Chief Eddie Gallagher, PDJT
didn’t “defend” anything. He corrected
prosecutorial overreach and malfeasance from a Navy prosecutorial team that was
corrupt from top to bottom and from start to finish. Still, Chief Gallagher was
acquitted of all of the most serious charges filed against him.
Chief Gallagher was found guilty for being in a photo
with a dead enemy combatant. In today’s
age of “viral” videos and social media posts, the photo was not smart. 10 other SEALs – some commissioned officers –
were in the same photo with Chief Gallaher.
Why was Chief Gallagher the only one to face courts martial for posing
in the picture? Why was Chief Gallagher
the only one scheduled to face a board to determine his suitability to retain
his Trident? Equal justice? Proportionate punishment?
PDJT has a sixth sense for BS. The Navy brass was in
BS up to their eyeballs with regard to how they treated Chief Gallagher and his
family. PDJT called them on it and
corrected it. Because he puts the
welfare of American warriors ahead of the hurt feelings of the liberal mob,
rear echelon Pentagon desk jockeys and enemy combatants (all one in the same?),
PDJT enjoys a 57% favorable rating among America’s warfighters according to a
2019 poll by the Military Times. By
comparison, Obama’s favorable rating in was just 37% in Jan 2017.
Trump values opposite
of US exceptionalism
So now we have another
in the Trump era degradation of our values.
First, it became OK to
call people of other races rapists and murderers. Then fine to disparage a
prisoner of war for being captured, even though he had served our country
admirably for years. Next OK to mimic and make fun of a physically handicapped
person. And to encourage violence at public events. Let's not forget OK to brag
about sexually assaulting women. Later, turns out Nazis and white supremacists
aren't all bad. And now, it's OK for military members to commit war crimes
with impunity.
I am certain that the
vast majority of our military are determined to serve honorably, but when their
commander in chief defends posing with the corpse of a combatant, what are they
to think? I would have thought a person who posed with a corpse of a combatant
might be embarrassed about it in the light of day, but instead it is cause to
have your attorney demand there be no punishment. This in the age of Trump.
What happened to
American exceptionalism? I thought it was based on a common belief that we
wanted to be a country whose values and conduct were to be emulated and
admired. Instead, our leader seems to be embarked on a race to the bottom, to
show not that we are to be admired, but that we can be as valueless as anyone
else.
Leonard Helfrich
Fort Wayne
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