The rage debate

Editor: A writer commented this week on my using an example on how different the liberals of today have basically done a 180 on what the liberals of my youth, of which I was one, believed in.

His comment, “I found it ironic since our current rulers were spawned from the same political party.”

Ben Franklin said, “Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”

If you put comments in context you would see that the whole point was in how liberals of the 1950s defended themselves against McCarthy. They used the belief that a man/woman is innocent until proven guilty. It’s the very foundation of jurisprudence going back centuries in Judeo-Christian law.

That’s now blasphemy in the leadership of the Democratic Party. That’s why I left the party. The writer mentioned that hate and rage causes the fear that our country’s rule of law and sacred institutions will be destroyed and added that the right does it with “invective.”

I have to keep it at their level, you see. Please tell me where I used abusive language. I’d really like to know since we all know liberals today are such a sensitive lot. As far as rage is concerned, can you give me any examples of rage from the right? I have examples of left rage: Two candidates in Minnesota were physically attacked giving one a concussion; a campaign manager in Arizona attacked physically by the Democratic campaign manager; riots in Oregon; mobs attacking the Supreme Court building trying to pry the doors open; Sen. Collins receiving thousands of death threats and having to have parts of her house and her pet quarantined when mail containing suspected poison was sent to her house.

And there’s more! But, you know, we are the evil ones and you’re pure who have the right to express "rage from people who have valid reasons” no matter how inane or violent it may be. Remember Lenin said, "the goal of socialism is communism.” RON PORTAL Lodi