Wednesday, January 22, 2025 | St. Lawrence County, NY
To the Editor:
Ms. Hodges [The GOP has its victory- posted Nov. 27] in her recent letter claims the GOP won because Republican billionaires influenced the election. She conveniently ignores …
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To the Editor:
Ms. Hodges [The GOP has its victory- posted Nov. 27] in her recent letter claims the GOP won because Republican billionaires influenced the election. She conveniently ignores Kamala Harris spending one billion in just 107 days during her campaign, and presently is 20 million in debt. Trump spent approximately only two-thirds that amount for the entire year. Seems Ms. Harris has poor money managing skills.
Money aside, Ms. Hodges impugned the intelligence of the 77 million Americans who voted for Trump, whom, according to her words, “got worked up about: non-whites overrunning America - immigrants stealing jobs - saving “unborn babies” - reducing crime - keeping their guns - banning gays - exalting Christianity - or owning the “libs.”
Really, Ms Hodges? How dare you portray conservatives who make up half our nation as exclusively racist, ignorant, and narrow-minded? Suggesting they are easily persuaded to knee-jerk vote based solely on political rhetoric messaging by “Republican Billionaires”? The truth is the outcome of the presidential election came down to ordinary American citizens weighing the issues, and voting with their conscience and values.
They who voted differently than you are your neighbors. They work in the community as teachers, utility workers, farmers, policemen, firefighters, EMT’s, and in the military to serve you regardless of what your political preferences are. How dare you lump them all as ill-informed and lacking in character because of who they voted for. Do you question your doctor, dentist, or public servant first to determine what their political affiliation is, lest you be attended by someone whom you esteem as a backwards sub-human conservative?
Ms. Hodges, your tone of contempt in your current letter is loud and clear. Remember these are your fellow human beings, with viable concerns, not cardboard stereotypes to employ in straw-man attacks in order to make your political points. We are all in this together. I suggest you seek peacefully to discuss common ground we can agree on, instead of turning it into a battlefield of "Us" vs. "Them."
Ron Shirtz
Rensselaer Falls
