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Opinion: Stefanik should be commended, not condemned, says Colton resident

Posted 12/6/19

In response to “Stefanik Owes Her Constituents Answers, says St. Lawrence County Democratic Committee” which appeared in the Nov. 27-Dec. 3 issue of North Country This Week: Similar to the Moscow …

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Opinion: Stefanik should be commended, not condemned, says Colton resident

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In response to “Stefanik Owes Her Constituents Answers, says St. Lawrence County Democratic Committee” which appeared in the Nov. 27-Dec. 3 issue of North Country This Week: Similar to the Moscow show trials of the 1930s, the impeachment inquiry against President Trump is a show hearing in which the guilt of the accused has been decided beforehand by the architects of the inquiry.

The resolution establishing the rules for the inquiry was passed without the approval of House Republicans, almost all of whom voted against it. Almost all Democratic representatives voted for it. Since Trump's election, the Democrats have tried to illicitly remove him from office. The hearing is the latest in their series of failed attempts to do so.

Rep. Stefanik refused to be intimidated by the show-hearing procedures established by the Democrats, and following standard procedure she sought to question a witness after being yielded time by Rep. Nunes. She is to be commended not condemned for refusing to acquiesce in the scandalous abuse of power by Democratic Party cadres. Trump won the North Country in a landslide and those who voted for him have not looked kindly on the Democrats' attempts to invalidate their ballots.

The St. Lawrence County Democratic Committee is as always well-organized and energetic and one can understand, given the ideological formation of its officers, their desire to remove by hook or by crook a president who wants to make America great again and who has succeeded spectacularly in his endeavor.

Earlier this year, in another failed attempt at nullifying the results of an election, SLC Democratic Committee officers tried to remove a newly-elected Republican county legislator, demanding that she resign for having posted a meme commemorating the 9/11 attacks and urging eternal vigilance.

The characterization by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi of President Trump as an impostor is indicative of the Democrats' contempt for the franchise and for those who exercise it. Lenin's dictum is apropos here: "A party is the vanguard of a class, and its duty is to lead the masses and not merely to reflect the average political level of the masses." For the Democrats, the average political level of the masses found expression in the election of the impostor Trump. The duty of the Democratic Party is to lead the masses, but it cannot do so while the impostor that the masses in their benightedness elected remains in office.

Kevin Beary

Colton