by Bill Jones, Stevensville
The October 15th letter of Jerry Esmay was not 100% correct. In fact, not even close. He furnished to the readers quite an impressive list of what “seems clear” to him to be the evidence that liberals’ minds have been lost. Another example of why anyone who groups together many millions of people as homogeneously identical people based upon what an infinitesimally small number of them may have said, should maybe seek sociological counseling.
Starting with the topic of Middle Eastern peace now being established forever and ever, and full credit owed to Donald Trump, how many of us do you think, Mr. Esmay, are going to wager money that the nearly eight decades of modern history will now be reversed? Maybe I missed something about the just-signed Agreement and the negotiations, but were the actual combatants, whose war was just entirely stopped in its tracks, so much as present? Who from Hamas or Israel attended, negotiated, agreed to the terms and signed? The likelihood that this agreement is more than a pipe dream and only a short paragraph in future history texts is very much as up in the air as are many “peace” deals before it. Place your bets.
Another Esmay attempt to frame liberal thinking as mindless came with the assertion that liberals objected to tightening the U.S. border and Esmay’s recollection that the border was closed in days by Trump. Take a look back at what the liberals were objecting to and you will see the wild, lawless and anti-Constitutional tactics Trump instituted were what drew liberal criticism. Your looking back might do well to expand its scope from what appears you regularly rely upon. Jesse Watters, Maria Bartiromo, Mark Levin, etc.? You’ll do better with actual journalists. Really.
Tariffs are good and a stroke of genius by Trump? Possibly Esmay hasn’t heard, because of where he news-sources, about the disastrous outcomes already being experienced by agriculture. Many other components of our economy also. Who would not mention at least a few of the “on day one” campaign promises like everything would become cheaper, taxation burdens would drop, …blah blah blah. How about the myths about the crime rates going bonkers where Democrats dominate governance? Esmay parroted this b.s. in his paragraph 3, but crime statistics prove the exact opposite! He goes on to criticize those who tried to remind us that the MAGA ambassador-to-the-college-aged, Charlie Kirk, was numerous times not shy about voicing denigration of females, homeless and much more. It wasn’t enough that the folks who have documented Kirk’s character failings always acknowledged that murdering someone was not a remedy to bigotry. No, but now what’s clear is that a solid MAGA missionary must be adored and his 1st Amendment right is limitless and liberals get to play with rulebook B. Esmay doesn’t understand why black citizens are fed up with burying their sons who get snuffed by public employees. It’s still a big deal with liberals too, but I won’t waste ink here trying to explain this, which the prior million explanations don’t seem to have been paid attention to. How did Esmay’s paragraph 5 and 6 go? Here we find the requisite Far-Right accusation of the Democrats going socially responsible, a terrible thing to folks who can’t get around to reading the Constitution beyond “We the people.” So many must just stop there AND haven’t learned the differences between “social” and “commune.”
helen sabin says
Title: Bill, the Mirror Is Over There
Ah, Bill Jones of Stevensville — another self-appointed “fact checker” who read Jerry Esmay’s letter and apparently felt called by the gods of irony to rescue us from “mindless grouping.” How touching.
Bill spends 800 words condemning people for generalizing while doing precisely that — generalizing conservatives as Fox-fed sheep incapable of independent thought. You almost have to admire the consistency. Almost.
He scolds Esmay for giving Trump credit on Middle East peace, then sidesteps the actual progress made under the Abraham Accords — those inconvenient real agreements signed by Arab nations that, yes, happened on Trump’s watch. Details, details.
Then comes the border lecture. Apparently, enforcing immigration law is now “anti-Constitutional.” That’s rich, and doesn’t deserve comment its such a ridiculous argument to make.
Bill assures us he prefers “actual journalists.” Translation: anyone who agrees with him politically.
And the best part? His sweeping defense of “liberals who haven’t lost their minds.” Sorry, Bill — when men can get pregnant, criminals are “justice-involved persons,” and the national debt is called an “investment in equity,” the evidence speaks for itself.
Maybe the real “losing of minds” isn’t happening on the Right. Bill might want to check the mirror before lecturing the rest of us about reality.
Bill Jones says
In response to Helen Sabin’s online reply to my LTE in the 10-29 Star I need to say a few things, briefly I hope, as I did get a bit wordy in the LTE. At 2.5 inches of column per 100 words it appears I hit about 560 words. Well excuuuuz me. I apologize if Helen is again angered by fact checking, but her stated “800 words” struck me as exaggeration.
Exaggeration could be the fly in the ointment in general. My complaint with Mr. Esmay was essentially how, after experiencing his descriptions of America’s problems I was left feeling that there was this enormous group of anti-law-and.-order radicals and they were all Democrats. A group that varied very little, and as I personally get accused of this pretty often it ticks me off as it’s flat out wrong. I don’t think I’ve ever even met one person such as that, and if that person claims he’s a Democrat that’s his own business. But as few anarchists (and such) as there may be , I am certain they are very rare. They don’t speak for me. I’m into regulated free enterprise . Stuff like that.
My letter did disclose my doubts about the “deal” for peace a few weeks ago. Just look at the record for peace deals in the Middle East. Trump claimed, and was granted by so many, that he was the only person who could accomplish this. Peace forever. Didn’t take a week to collapse. 100% a taxpayer funded circus sideshow!
I’ll make one last point, in response to Sabin’s 3rd paragraph. Here’s where she supercharges her “grouping” tendencies. The Liberals believe men can become pregnant? But, excuuuz me again, criminals ARE justice involved, because everyone within our boundaries are assured a RIGHT to due process. Show me someone who believes that’s false and I’ll show you an anti-Constitutionalist. we must obey “Establish Justice”, what I call “The 2nd Commandment” of the 6 commands of our Constitution’s Preamble.
Oh, the national debt constantly being blamed on the Democrats, like Sabin alludes to herself. Few, if any, elderly Americans today has ever witnessed a single federal administration of a Republican President who did NOT explode the national debt. Several times it tripled. It has quadrupled in a single administration! Presently, it looks like we had better quit throwing mud, making unfounded claims, grouping , et cetera and buckle down to fix the messiness. The debt has just exceeded the GDP.