April 30, 2022
Dear editor;
“Conservatives Under Attack” claim they are victims of relentless attacks by social media, fake news media, federal agencies and the Democratic Party. Their remedies: Shrink the federal government. I learned in school that lack of government is chaos; secure the border with Mexico: Build the wall at our expense; make the U.S. energy independent. What would they do that president Joe Biden isn’t already doing? tackle inflation is the plan. Their plan? Inflation is worldwide, due to the pandemic from inaction, or wrong-headed suggestions such as drink bleach, insert ultraviolet light, ivermectin by twice-impeached former president Donald Trump, received praised on political signs, and the supply chain interrupted even more severely by the war; institute voter identification laws to ensure election integrity. Have they looked at voter registration requirements lately? Republicans are the only ones who illegally voted twice for Trump. They call January 6, 2021 a patriotic walk through the Capitol and call the 2020 election stolen from Trump. They just can’t quit the Big Lie.
They blame Lauren Underwood for relentlessly attacking their values. It’s called the truth; not defending the border, keeping migrant workers, asylum seekers, and Ukrainian refugees out? Yes, thousands of Ukrainians are coming across the border from Mexico, faster than all others. But they say Ukraine is not our problem?
They want to Take America Back to 1950? Women barefoot, pregnant, in the kitchen, blacks in their place, only whites matter, boys molested by priests, abortions only for well-off white women.
They want to dismantle Biden policies: Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell will help them because he promised to block everything Biden wants to do. Bring back American energy? They mean more coal? More tax breaks to the ultra-rich oil industrialists such as the Kochs who will not end their dealings with Putin while he is committing genocide and war crimes in Ukraine?
Ban books, white-wash race and slavery from our history, forbid teachers to speak of children being raised by two mommies or two daddies, re-closet gays, keep transgenders locked up in their birth bodies, so Conservatives aren’t victimized? Sounds like the other way around.
Judy Siedlecki, Oswego