LETTER: Letter writer not backing down

I’ll try to make this tweak and rebuttal mercifully short:

Rushing my Nov. 13 “liberal lament” in after the election, I made factual errors. First, Hoover was not “the last time Republicans controlled all three branches.” Excluding the judiciary from the equation, W. Bush had Congress for 4.5 years, and Eisenhower for two years. Second, “the last six out of seven Republican Presidents couldn’t win the popular vote” was incorrect. According to my notes (not counting millions of purged Democratic voters!), it should be “Republican presidential candidates,” further clarified by “four-year election cycles starting with H. Bush’s second term, regardless if the candidate won or lost.” Third, Naomi Wolf wrote “10 Steps to Fascism,” not 12.

That segues to my rebuttal to Ron McClellan and Jerry Molen in their Nov. 20 letters. Their far-reaching misconstructions of my overall point about fascism were disingenuous attempts to make the issue about me while pivoting to their own hateful canned talking points. Sorry guys; I’ve hung around too many right-wing blog sites to be shut down by that cheap trick. You may impugn my character and misrepresent my views all you want, but I’m not going anywhere and refuse to be redefined by untruthful interpretations of what it means to be a liberal.

I am very patriotic — but not to a fascist police state promoted by the actual words of your (not mine) p---y-grabbing “leader.” I am very religious — but not like the hypocrites who use religion to divide people and promote war.

Concerning the anachronistic, undemocratic Electoral College, our Founders did get some big things wrong, such as slavery, women’s suffrage, and placing a firewall between voters (irrespective of location) and their obvious choice, whereby a minority has sway over the majority. Trump lost the will of the people by almost 2 million (and counting). —Ryan Lawlor, Kalispell