Dear editor:
Mr. John Reese, I was disappointed and hurt to be left off your
list of thuggish, right-wing extremists. By golly, I’ve worked hard
to get on lists like that and I think I deserve reconsideration.
Think of this letter as my entry form.
Dear editor:
Mr. John Reese, I was disappointed and hurt to be left off your list of thuggish, right-wing extremists. By golly, I’ve worked hard to get on lists like that and I think I deserve reconsideration. Think of this letter as my entry form.
Consider for a moment the nation we live in.
Famine has been eliminated. Shoot, the media is lamenting an epidemic of obesity.
Pestilence is a shadow of what it was 50 years ago. Smallpox, diphtheria, polio, cholera, typhoid, bubonic plague, and malaria, the killers of hundreds of millions, have been eliminated here.
War doesn’t happen here. We haven’t had a war on our territory in 138 years. It’s been so dang peaceful that half the population thinks that they can disarm themselves and nothing bad will happen.
Death has been delayed. Our average life expectancies are among the highest in the world. We have the richest poor people in the world. Immigrants smuggle themselves in containers and sneak across deserts so that they can be poor people here.
We are awash in a torrent of goods. The standard of living for people at the poverty line is higher than the prosperous in other nations.
Liberals have been reduced to complaining about materialism: “It is evil for you to have an SUV that is bigger than my SUV!”
All of this we have achieved by standing upon our own feet and creating plenty with the work of our own hands and our own brains.
Mr. Reese, we conservatives like it here. We think this nation is worth preserving. Unlike you liberals, we are willing to sacrifice personal comfort and advantage when necessary to support our society and our nation. We resent people like you who do not share that sense of duty.
I am 47. I have been following politics for about 25 years. In all that time I have not seen a single liberal policy position that has not been for personal gain at the expense of the general welfare. Feel free to present contradictory arguments if you have any.
Unions seek to control the political process to force workers to join unions, to force non-members to pay union dues, and to eliminate non-union employers. “The right to organize”slogan is an absurd joke.
Union members seek to control the political process to increase their pay and benefits. “Vote the pocketbook issues!”
Public employees seek to control the political process so they can increase their pay and the number and power of bureaucratic jobs.
Environmentalists seek to control the political process so they can take property for their own use without paying for it.
Gays and minorities seek to control the political process so they can get special privileges for their personal advantage.
Feminists seek to control the political process so they can kill their children whenever they like.
In summary, the whole dang progressive movement is as fine a collection of liars, cheats, thieves, traitors, and killers as you will find anywhere in human history.
Stuart Allen, Gilroy
Submitted Sunday, Sept. 21 to ed****@****ic.com
