Party choices
Dear editor:
Just a brief reply to Mr. Cherry’s retort to my Dec. 27 letter. Rick, space did allow me to point out specifically so many half-truths in your missive. Virtually every line you wrote was either misinformation or half-truth. I refrained from saying “fabrications.”
And please do not ask me to change party. I spent my first 30 voting years as a Republican because I had grown up in Arkansas observing how Democrats promised Blacks the moon and never delivered. I worked in a grocery during high school and sold thousands of items to Blacks but they could not sit beside me in a restaurant and share the food they had cooked. The Demos never voted for one civil rights bill, until Lyndon Johnson initiated one in the ’60s. But at that time the Republicans, who deserted the Blacks back in the early ’20s, began deserting them again by promoting private schools and school vouchers. Finally, though reluctant, Southern Democrats took the role the GOP dropped in civil rights and justice for all. So, for the last 25 years, I have supported them. I have seen in my 84-plus years drastic changes in both parties and now prefer the platform of the Democrats. This year, the GOP did not even have a platform because the Republican Party has become a mixture of “tea party radicalism” and younger ones who know little about political history. Historical education would profit many of them.
No, Rick, I think as Shakespeare’s mother of Hamlet said, when her son was seeking the truth, “I think you do protest too much.”
With thanks to God and wonderful, dedicated science minds, I hope for a better New Year for all.
John W. “Doc” Crawford Hot Springs
Dear editor:
If the Republicans do not win the two Senate seats in Georgia on Wednesday, the liberal/ socialist Democrats will control the Senate, the House, and the White House. Basically, they will have total unchecked control of the United States government.
They have pledged to pack the Supreme Court with liberals, increasing its size from nine to 13. Also, they have promised to increase the size of the Senate with four more liberal senators by making the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico states.
On their agenda is the abolition of the electoral college, a controversial entity that actually protects the less-populated states from being swamped in the presidential elections by the highly populated states.
As an added insult to equitable interpretation of the law, they intend to increase the number of liberal circuit court judges with easy confirmation by the Democrat-controlled Senate.
It is my opinion that true democracy in the United States will disappear and we will see an increased culture of entitlements, increased lawlessness, and mob control by those who claim to be “woked.”
John Grillo Hot Springs
Vaccine plan needed
Dear editor:
Every day I read articles describing the number of COVID victims and deaths, scores of articles about the 5,900-page economic relief plan. It seems the public would be better served by a detailed plan on vaccine distribution. I cannot find anything approaching this either from the federal government or from our own state governor.
Simply study those infected and put the focus on those numbers using the volume of vaccines allotted. With all the false information about COVID a logical simple statement of distribution would be welcomed.
Bill Fritz Hot Springs Village