This is in response to the letter recently printed in The Sun by Richard Davis. How someone can live to be 84 and be so misinformed about the issues is incredible to me. Seems that CNN and MSNBC have done their job. Mr. Davis mentions FDR, the president who did not so much end the Depression as prolong it in an attempt to have more people dependent on government.
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President Trump did not inherit a growing economy from Obama (talk about the worst president in history). Obama presided over the worse stagnant economy in decades. Mr. Davis’ reference to climate change proves that he believes in the biggest hoax perpetrated on the American people ever ( notice how the so-called cures are all based on socialism?). He also uses the worn-out racism charge on the man who has done more for minorities then liberal Democrats have ever done. They keep telling minorities that they are too stupid to succeed without government help.
What an insult to those people.
Anyone who thinks that the president engages in destroying the reputations of professional American politicians need only look at what the Democrats have done to him since before he ever took office. As for turning our so-called allies against us, all he has done is insist that they finally pay their fair share for their own defense rather than relying on us as their cash cow. And It might help if they stop doing business with countries like Iran.
By the way, our infrastructure was crumbling long before Mr. Trump was president. Remember those shovel-ready jobs?
If Mr. Davis votes Democrat in the coming election, he is voting for the destruction of our great country.
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To The Daily Sun,
I find it exasperating emotionally, and baffling intellectually why and how Trump’s supporters can support him — and I speculate that it’s because they don;t keep abreast of the news, and/or they think the economy is all that matters, and that he is good for the economy.
Since long before he became President, Trump made news that should absolutely have disqualified him to hold public office and, as president, he has done more to sabotage our government and attack our democracy than Russia, China, North Korea and Iran combined! All of Trump’s destructive and treasonous behavior has been dutifully reported in the news — and serious writers and authors have spoken out and written books about his presidential malpractice — but his supporters go blithely on defending him, which can only mean they haven’t been paying attention.
As for the economy: ANY conservative Republican would have had the same effect on the economy that Trump (may have) had. (Since Trump actually inherited an improving economy, his actual effect may have been slight.)That said, Trump’s supporters’ fixation on the economy utterly ignores the important matters of climate change, environmental degradation, poverty, racism; Trump’s betraying our allies while selling out to our adversaries; our aging, crumbling highways and bridges; Trump’s sadistic way of destroying the careers of patriotic Americans who criticize him; and on and on! He is actually the worst president in American history — and possibly truly guilty of treason.
I am 84, and vividly remember every president back to FDR — and Trump’s supporters are the only one sin my lifetime who scare the hell out of me for their ignorance or indifference to their hero’s anti-Americanism.
Richard Davis
Thornton