I rise to defend the good doctor’s “hate filled diatribe” which was excoriated in the letter “Democrats are hardly pure.” I admit that I’m a fan of Schwab’s position and sent him a “Bravo” email the day of the column. (“Not how GOP, Fox or Bundys planned things.”) The positions he takes are not that extreme and represent his deep down despair of the condition of the loyal opposition, the Republican Party, and its hangers-on. Have you watched the Republican debates?
The writer presents some pretty lame examples of “hardly pure Democrats.”
1. I doubt that Bernie Sanders, a Jew, wants a socialist (read “National Socialist” aka Nazi) government in the United States which could send him off to a concentration camp. I wish the Republicans would get off their obscene fascination with “Hitler.”
2. I don’t understand the argument about universal health care; business knows more about you through your use of social media than the government could ever fantasize about.
3. The Second Amendment argument, registering firearms, is pretty low level and not espoused by any national or rational Democrat.
4. I don’t think accusing George Soros of “ill-gotten fortune” holds any water. Soros is an investor who made a killing “shorting” currencies, hardly a sin in our capitalist world. If making a financial killing shorting currencies is a tenet of socialism, I stand corrected.
5. There has never been any evidence that Soros bought any votes for Al Franken. Franken, a New Yorker, has been a very successful liberal senator, reelected in 2014, and is a “Minnesota Democrat,” not a Socialist. Minnesota, the home of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party, has a lot of farmers and therefore breeds a lot of liberal Democrats.
6. I’m certainly no fan of Al Sharpton. A lot of people, both Democrats and Republicans, owe taxes and hide earnings. Ever been to the Cayman Islands?
James R. Wright
Edmonds
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