What a vote for Mcclintock really means

To the Editor:

Unlike countries with a parliamentary form of government, the U.S. doesn't have a “no-confidence” vote to express disappointment with how things are going. Instead, we have midterm elections. So if things aren't perfect, we tend to vote against the party in the White House, regardless of why things are less than perfect. That vote will take place in November.

If you're unhappy with President Biden or the slim Democratic majorities in Congress, you may be tempted to vote to keep Republican Tom Mcclintock in Congress.

If you do, that won't change the president; all it will do is make it almost certain that absolutely nothing will get done to help Americans in the next two years.

And it will be one more vote to make Kevin Mccarthy speaker of the House. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) posts an anime video of himself killing a congresswoman; Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) says Democratic politicians should be killed. And Mccarthy says both should get better assignments if Republicans take back the House.

It would be a vote for a party that has become openly opposed to democracy. Says Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), “Democracy isn't the objective; liberty, peace, and prospefity [sic] are. We want the human condition to flourish. Rank democracy can thwart that.”

“Rank democracy?” Oh heavens, we shouldn't want “rank democracy,” should we, because that would mean that ordinary people would have a say in how this country is governed. Only Republicans should decide how the human condition should “flourish,” right, Mr. Mcclintock? If they don't think like us, don't let 'em vote, right?

That's what a vote for Tom Mcclintock will mean this fall. It won't end the Biden presidency; it will only take the country closer to ending everything for which this country has stood for over two centuries. Gary Sipperley

Twain Harte