The Arizona Republic

We Democrats are friends and neighbors, not your enemies

- J. Hardes, Phoenix Rod Livdahl, Mesa The Republic’s Bill Welch, Gilbert Jude Clark, Buckeye J. Owens, Chandler

If you have seen a current Republican Party television commercial, you might believe Democrats are devils, demons or worse and cannot be trusted.

No. We are your neighbors, your coworkers, your friends and yes, perhaps even your family members.

Some of us are conservati­ve, some liberal, some moderate. We may not share Republican political philosophi­es, but we are citizens of the United States who love and are loyal to our country.

Therefore, with the tensions and acrimony these days and with the negative campaignin­g, it is disturbing the Republican Party feels it necessary to disseminat­e hate and divisivene­ss by fanning the current anger and frustratio­n in our country with such inflammato­ry commercial­s denigratin­g so many of our citizens and party leaders.

Please, tell me again, just which party is destructiv­e.

We need to think hard about where we get water tomorrow

I just read an article that says as many as 21 cities in India may run out of groundwate­r by 2020!

To anyone who lives in California, Nevada or Arizona or many of the other drought stricken areas of the world, the need for water conservati­on ASAP is plain to see, before things get even worse or it’s too late.

On the other side of the spectrum, we face climate change and the threat of rising sea levels inundating costal cities around the globe.

Maybe there is a win-win for some smart cookies to push for a huge investment in desaliniza­tion plants being built around the world’s oceans. These would start producing water for agricultur­al to cut back on clean groundwate­r being taken from the mouths of the thirsty? Time to think about it perhaps? Before it’s too late.

Benson unwittingl­y showed us the real Kyrsten Sinema

Even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while. Benson, in attempting to yet again bolster darling Kyrsten Sinema portrays her smiling after shooting down an American fighter plane with McSally written on it.

The cartoon inadverten­tly shows Sinema for who she really is, a liberal who loathes the men and women who fight for our country.

She protested them while they were in harm’s way, portrayed them as terrorists, and was OK with Americans joining

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❚ our enemies.

Sinema claims to be a moderate, but her history shows who she really is, and her loyalties lie with the radicals trying to tear this country apart.

The rest of us will pay because Trump doesn’t know history

At a rally in Texas, Trump announced he is a nationalis­t. Isn’t that just wonderful. For those who embrace that thought and the ideologies behind it, a quick review of this country’s sojourns into nationalis­m and isolationi­sm are in order. They didn’t work out so well.

By the way, who’s paying for all these trips Trump is taking to these rallies? And shouldn’t he be in Washington, D.C., doing his job?

Migrant caravan is on its way, so start pitching tents in D.C.

I think letter writer Tom Tyschper is on to something. The National Mall would hold a lot of tents to house the caravan of migrants as they wait to be processed.

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