Fooling the gullible
Congressional conservatives happily support someone who never or ever will be Republican. Openly pushing fascism, Donald Trump is using constituent-based gullibility immersed in an education desert to fool gullible conservatives into ignoring his multitude of lies and four indictments, and a belief being found liable for rape is admirable. Likewise for his stated love of violent dictators, Hamas and Hezbollah terrorists, and, domestically, taking full credit for ending women’s reproductive rights.
The “genius” says he will jail political opponents, revoke broadcasting licenses and pardon the “patriots” he ordered to disrupt constitutional business. He said, “terminate the Constitution,” bragging he can end the Ukraine war in “one day” and depicts liberals as subhuman or “vermin.” Pay attention. Voting for Trump is voting for fascism.
It’s silly of me to think conservatives once revered the Constitution. To kill democratic values, Republicans have replaced governance with chaos, swapped guns for sanity, independence for obeisance and rational thinking for angry ranting. Loosely termed “representative,” their platform is book bans, censoring teachers, learning as “woke,” more dead schoolkids, nongovernance, corporate welfare and dissolution of truth.
Astonishingly, former Republicans will vote for someone boasting open admiration of brutal dictators. Trump is a toddler compared to that geezer who united the world in opposition to Putin. That old man’s economic policies have surpassed Trump’s despite opposition from shiny, new legislators — the Supreme Court. That sorry elder statesman and decrepit grandfather is schooling Republicans on governance, not interminable complaining about nonexistent hoaxes.
Jim Roach
Moscow
Stand with Israel
Will we all need to find attics to hide in?
Former Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann recently said on “Understanding the Times” radio broadcast that Hamas terrorists have talked openly about coming after the “Saturday crowd” (Jews) before taking out the “Sunday crowd” (Christians), and speculated on who might be next. (Further, hate crimes, generally, have risen.)
Distinguished professor Thane Rosenbaum, of Touro College, believes recent college (etc.) attacks on Jews are about “normalizing antisemitism” — especially with the help of those like former Wake Forest college professor Laura Mullen, who posted on social media (now deleted) that she’d be “tempted to shoot up dance parties like Hamas” did.
Joel Rosenberg of “The Rosenberg Report” said Jews feel isolated and alone, as targets of terrorism. Some Jews question whether friends will continue standing with them, especially if they have nothing in return to offer.
Nothing to offer?
Jews have made “immense contributions” to the world in different fields.” (See Norman Lebrecht’s book “Genius and Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World.”) A “disproportionate number” of Nobel Prize winners have been Jewish.
“Tikkun Olam” ... is explained in the CBN documentary “To Life: How Israel Volunteers are Changing the World” (tolifethemovie.com). Watch other CBN/Israel documentaries, including “The Hope: The Rebirth of Israel” (thehope1948.com).
We should stand strongly with Israel and the Jewish people, especially as “... God loves Israel and desires this kingdom to last forever ...” (2 Chronicles 9:8), and because anyone/group could be “the next target” of hatred or terrorism.
Ronda Granlund
Clarkston
