by Becky Peters, Hamilton
I’m in my 70’s and I grew up loving Ike and what he accomplished for our nation. I also loved to listen to my aunts and uncles argue among themselves about their various political viewpoints. They always did it with fact-based statements, delicacy and humor, no hard feelings. Later I admired Ted Kennedy collaborating with Republicans to get work done for the American citizens.
As a long time Democrat, I miss those sensible people. What happened? Where are the caring and collaborative Republicans who can work across the aisle? Do they exist? The Democratic leaders in Congress talk about their desire to come together but what I am hearing from the GOP is fear and hate and derogatory comments about their Democratic representatives. And then certain media outlets repeat, repeat, and repeat the abusive talk and lies which is meant to fire up “their base.”
My shock is that the thoughtful and patriotic Republicans are not speaking up. Why not? When an elected Republican says something full of lies and hate I’m not seeing their fellow members disagree. Again, why not? Over 50 years of voting I have frustratingly seen Democrats disagree publicly with each other but then they are able to compromise their stands for the good of the American people.
Now, for us, the common people, the voters, my question again is: Why are we not seeing more Republicans stand up and say out loud “This rudeness is wrong, our party is better than this”? People are worried about losing the common sense of kind Republicans that this country needs in order to work amicably with others just as Eisenhower did – no hate, no fear, not threatening violence, not taking rights away from women, away from voters, away from other religions, away from other races. . . away from fellow Americans.
I’m with Elie Wiesel on this, “Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” Sensible, caring Republicans – we need you for the health of our nation! Please speak up, don’t let meanness, prejudice, and rudeness take over!
hsabin says
And the other DEM party is led by a mentally ill man with dementia, or Alzheimers, who cannot find his way from his helicopter to the White House, and has turned the office of POTUS over to Barack Obama and Valerie Jarrett who did an abysmal job when Obama was in office and is still doing so. Further, the members of the DEM party don’t care that inflation is at 8.5% caused by a DEM Congressional HOUSE that waste taxpayer money from hard-working Americans on the stupidity of “green energy” that has those who were foolish enough to buy EVs are now sitting around wondering how to get their cars charged, and an administration that leaves the border open to killers, rapists, criminals of all kinds, and has set us on a path to a possible nuke war with Russia. Most DEMS are so emotionally gaslighted they can’t see the truth even when Biden falls asleep while being interviewed, when Biden speaks nonsense against 1/2 of the population of the USA, and when Biden stumbles and stammers and is laughed at by the world. The DEMS are among the most ideological individuals this USA has ever seen and Gomez is among them –
Gomez says
Even as someone that leans left, I understand and appreciate that the fact that any healthy society needs the gentle back and forth of opinions and ideas from both the left and the right. The problem today is that one party has abandoned all logic and reason and has stopped being a political party and has become a cult, a cult led by a mentally unstable orange igneramoaus. Until they confront their own and deal with this imbecile we are only going to see more of the violence and divisiveness that have become common in recent days.