Dishonor will remain

We’ve got the best legislators that money can buy, and it’s becoming more evident by the day that the NRA has them paid for. Republicans have enabled the seeding of this country with guns plentiful as deer ticks. And that was done while they sowed distrust of the government without reason. The courts have been corrupted by them at many levels, being occupied by party loyalists, the Constitution be damned.

Then we have the “evangelical Christians” who want the respectability of Christ’s name but follow the one they really revere, named Donald Trump. We are about to coronate one of them as the next governor who surely knows the teachings of Jesus, but gives her first loyalty to

Trump. The book says, “By their fruits shall ye know them.” Her enabling Trump’s Big Lie and still calling herself a Christian is despicable.

There used to be Republicans I and many more respected because they earned that respect. You would not have found them accepting the autocratic fascism of Donald Trump or overlooking his complicity in the attempted insurrection of Jan. 6, 2021. Like Liz Cheney said from her position on the committee, “I say this to my Republican colleagues who are defending the indefensible. There will come a day when Donald Trump is gone, but your dishonor will remain.”

I’m past 80 now, but still have memories of military buddies who died defending the democracy of this country that you lowlifes are endangering. I spent time in a military hospital but got to come home alive. I and a lot of other old veterans view the lot of you with disdain and as a national disgrace. Yet I can’t help but wonder if any of you’d view the sensible gun rules differently if you’d had a child killed by one of those “Second Amendment heroes” you don’t want to inconvenience in his ability to wreak carnage on the innocent.

KARL HANSEN Hensley