Megan McArdle’s column in the Nov. 10 Herald rightfully criticized the Democrats for boosting the chances of MAGA election-denying Republicans in primaries in order to prop up easier-to-defeat candidates in the general election. This strategy was hypocritical, without integrity, and, in my opinion, highly threatening to our democracy.
I completely agree with McArdle that the risks to democracy of this cynicism from those that often do and always claim to have the moral high ground were way more important than winning a seat. But winning is all we expect of anyone in this post-modernist, nothing-is-really-true, sick world. The GOP has for a while now, just like Putin, stoked the fears of traditionalists that their world is being destroyed by know-it-all liberals and their constant criticism of America’s past and their constant demands for restructuring our world around equity, environmental justice and wealth distribution.
The word woke seems all they need to be morally superior to progressives. No one’s religious freedom or economic opportunities are really under threat. Children are not being indoctrinated in schools nearly as much as they are finally being taught reality, the chamber of horrors we call history. Almost literally no one is killing babies but conservatives seem afraid of their own shadows because of the media and disreputable politicians on the right that care about literally nothing else but fame, money and power. And winning.
But now it seems that the Democrats as well care less for our democracy than winning. Like Edward R. Murrow used to say, good night and good luck. It seems that humans are just too stupid and full of themselves to have a decent and caring world.
Rick Walker
Snohomish
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