(Blog Editor's note: The following letter appeared in the March 23 edition of your local newspaper. Since said newspaper does not often present both sides of an issue, we will. Here is Gazette Columnist Noble Collins' response.)
THE OFFENDING LETTER
Editor:
Do you know what the Democratic Party believes? Over the last few months, I have observed in the newspapers, radio and television what the Democratic Party stands for and I will list them here:
1. They believe in open borders. They want amnesty for all illegal aliens in our country.
2. They believe in income redistribution. They want to take money from hard-working citizens and give it to non-working citizens.
3. They believe in de-emphasizing Christianity. They want to deny citizens the right to worship as they see fit.
4. They believe in reducing our ability to defend our country. They loathe the military.
5. They are pro-union and anti-business.
6. They believe in big government. They want to hire more government employees and create more agencies.
7. They believe that the Second Amendment does not guarantee citizens the right to abort any pregnancy.
8. They are against making our country energy independent. They want to stop all drilling and refining in our country.
There are more issues that we could discuss, but these are enough to reveal the agenda of the Democratic Party.
Is this what we want to happen to our country? I don’t think so.
If the Democratic Party prevails in November, we will lose our Constitutional republic and will be a socialist republic, or worse.
Don Castleman
NOBLE'S RESPONSE
Editor The Payson Roundup:
You recently published a letter to the editor supposedly written by a person claiming to know what the Democratic Party stands for. How this individual would presume to know is evidence enough of his limited sources of information and his ability to distort, misstate, invent, etc. what little he apparently does rely upon.
He is, quite obviously, not a Democrat, and I believe the Party wouldn't cry over that. We are a tolerant organization, so we acknowledge anyone's freedom to cling to their opinions. We understand how much more emotionally satisfying it must be to daydream negative assaults than to spend any effort at education or fact finding.
We are concerned, however, that innocent children can have their lives minimized by propaganda. It's been attempted many times, of course, but our experience is that most people, children included, are completely capable of understanding truth when it is presented fairly and rationally without blind bias. Sadly we do realize, though, that some individuals are simply incapable of complex thought or attempting to balance tainted information with refreshing truth.
Democrats are dedicated to root out lies and misinformation as part of an agenda to help make the world a better place to live in and raise rational,enlightened, children. This is an especially difficult task recently. We welcome the opportunity to discuss or even fairly debate our real views with anyone who actually believes in looking for facts and ascertaining truth.
Noble Collins
4 comments:
“He is, quite obviously, not a Democrat, and I believe the Party wouldn't cry over that.”
“Sadly we do realize, though, that some individuals are simply incapable of complex thought…”
Except for those two mocking, derogatory, elitist remarks, you had a good response going Noble.
Too bad you and many of your sort tend to fall back on this type of ridicule when you can make the same argument without using them.
Notice how Mr. Collins never addresses any of the issues enumerated by the original letter writer but instead attacks the individual's intelligence and declares him "incapable of complex thought."
Yup, he's a Democrat!!
Just trying to comprehend the letter writer's motive, since the accusations are so blatantly off base, or at least completely unsupported.
If wild icomprehensible accusations can be thrown around so loosely with nothing to show for them but their juvenile tone, I suppose my comments do sound somewhat "elitist" by compaison.
If, by "elitist" you refer to individuals who claim all truth for themselves, I refer you to the letter writer.
The writer, and others, can make all the claims they can dream up.
When they attempt to make up facts, though, they always seem to come up short.
As I said, the letter writer offers no facts, only opinions.
Any time he, or anyone else, would care to debate the actual facts,that would be refreshing, and I'm ready.
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