Is The Herald becoming a moniker for reactionary and right wing letter writers? The letter “Be sure to vote, thank military” on Memorial Day leads me to believe so. Instead of writing to thank a service member for their service to our country, this individual rants and raves about liberals, gays, budgets, oil drilling and illegal immigrants.
It appears that the members of the “Grumpy Old White Man Party” aka tea partiers, birthers, irritated Republicans and anyone else in that camp, will not allow something as introspective as Memorial Day to pass without complaining. I call this group the GOWMP, even though I am fully aware that not all members are old, white or even male.
Why is the GOWMP so insistent on dividing America with an “us” versus “them” attitude? Liberals are supposedly the enemy, according to the writer. Does the writer stop to think that state budgets have grown because both state populations and responsibilities to services have grown? I am not talking about immigration, either.
Is the writer aware or even caring about the fact that drilling for oil on American shores and lands does not guarantee that any oil found here will stay here? Is the writer happy to emulate a former regime like Nazi Germany where your papers also had to be in “order” and shown when demanded? Does the writer think for one moment that the flag placed at the grave of a dead soldier, who may have been gay, make that soldier and any others who serve, who also were gay, any less patriotic?
To other Grumpy Party members, young and old, white or not, quit trying to divide America between “us” versus “them.” That is my wish this Memorial Day.
Steven Arnhold
Marysville
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