Save the Democrats

How interesting the letters page has been lately. So many writers urging us regular people to vote for Democrats. Why we should vote for people who have promised to work against the policies that we prefer they don’t bother to explain. Perhaps not all of us voted for Trump, but we darn sure didn’t vote for Hillary, neither.

Of course, the large majority of these writers have been paragons of virtue. One shining paragon of civility calls Republicans “troublesome critters.” I’d wait for these previous letter-writers to rush in crying, “Civility!” but I don’t really feel like growing a beard waiting for that to happen.

I wasn’t really impressed with the sober thinking, judicious inquiry, and complete lack of hysterics that were on display by Democrats at the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings. You know, the kind of “adults in the room” behavior that they promise to bring to Washington once you vote them back into power.

When one political party moves (or, in the Democrats’ case, feverishly rushes) too far to one extreme, the only thing that can be done is to let them embrace and hold their new extreme positions and vote against those positions. The quicker and more completely they are ushered out of power, the quicker the more extreme positions will be purged from the party, and the quicker they will adapt more moderate and sane positions. So it only makes sense to vote a straight Republican ticket in order to save the Democrat Party. LONNIE HILL Fayetteville