Letters

Lately, the news is awash with Democratic Party rhetoric on the existential threat to democracy that Donald Trump represents. There is no wonder there have been two assassination attempts in as many months.

When the right uses inflammatory rhetoric, it is an existential threat; such attribution is summarily dismissed when heard from the left, and the compliant media bows in supplication. Remember Chuck Schumer telling Brett Kavanaugh he’ll “pay the price” for rolling back abortion rights?

While the left laments that decision by the Supreme Court, few acknowledge that it handed them the midterm elections. The court put the decision on abortion back into the hands of the states, where it always belonged. Presently, there are nine states with no gestational restrictions on abortion. This is even more fundamentally and morally backward than the conservative states who are setting restrictions once a heartbeat is detected.

These distinct differences descend throughout both party’s partisan rhetoric and are rotting whatever decency and core values that may remain, making a bipartisan agreement on this divisive issue virtually impossible.

Let’s examine fundamental, existential threats to democracy. First should be censorship and First Amendment rights. Secondly, separation of powers. Third, free and fair elections.

During the 2016 election, the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign concocted and financed the Russian collusion hoax while corrupted and zealot agents in the FBI assisted in the deception on a grand scale. The adoring liberal media was complicit in its execution by failing to do its due diligence.

During the 2020 elections and throughout the COVID pandemic, the Department of Justice and FBI failed to do their jobs. When investigating Hunter Biden’s laptop, they attempted to influence the media and later promoted censorship on major outlets with regard to COVID treatments and vaccinations, all while lying about it.

Almost half the nation is, at the very least, skeptical about election results, and the public has universally lost confidence on the reliability of the news that is being filtered and disseminated for public consumption.

The Democratic Party has colluded and endorsed each of the aforementioned threats to democracy. Such control is reminiscent of the authoritarian countries of North Korea, Russia and China. Vice presidential nominee Tim Walz has a special affinity for China, having visited it 30 times, by his own admission. He even chose the fifth anniversary of the brutal repression of the Tienanmen Square protests as his wedding day. Walz is known to liberally hand out Mao’s little red book of sayings because he loves its witticisms and message.

Professor Donald Harris, the father of Kamala, wrote a notable economics monograph largely predicated on government control of markets endorsed by both Keynesian and Marxist economic theory.

John Porta

Westhampton