Letters to the editor March 14

Self-serving politics

Where do we find political “unity” in America? Where is the independent voice of reason for a nation torn apart by two self-serving political parties?

If the Democrats and Republicans truly cared about American citizens, they would not have allowed Wall Street to offshore more than 500,000 American businesses (nearly 70,000 of which are vital manufacturing facilities), along with the millions of irreplaceable Main Street jobs they represent, to communist China and other slave-labor countries so less than one percent of the nation could wallow in wealth; they would not have sent our children in uniform to bleed and die in endless, undeclared foreign wars that serve only to enrich the Wall Street merchants of death and their shareholders.

They would have secured our southern border to prevent untold millions-of-illegal aliens from invading the nation to take American jobs, depress wages, spread disease and fill our prisons; they would not continue to give billions-of-tax dollars in foreign aid to countries that despise the United States, many of whom are its avowed enemies; they would not have used trillions of taxpayer dollars to bail-out corporate America and the CEOs who gamed the economy into insolvency in 2008, without indicting, prosecuting or jailing a single one of them.

They would not have delegated their Constitutional authority to unelected federal agencies that are turning America’s hard-won Bill of Rights into government-controlled privileges; they would have prevented nine individuals in black robes from devaluing all life by unleashing hell on tens-of-millions of unborn babies; they would not have allowed a private central bank to manipulate the financial/economic system with interest rates that benefit the few at the expense of the many, while debasing the currency of the nation.

They would not have deficit-spent our once-productive nation into the poorhouse with one pork-barrel bill after another; they would not have allowed election fraud to make our votes as meaningless as due process and the rule of law; they would have put the freedom and welfare of American citizens above their petty political agendas.

Now, instead of a government of the people, by the people, for the people, we have two wings of the same predatory beast devouring our lives, our liberty and our pursuit of happiness. The further the federal government distances itself from the Constitution and Bill of Rights, the closer it comes to repeating history. How long will the train of abuses become before the American people are done with both political parties?

—Richard S. Grozik, Kalispell

Extremism

Wow. So our new legislator from the Canyon/ Columbia Falls area, Rep. Braxton Mitchell, is sponsoring a bill to put antifa on notice as a terrorist group. The only place antifa shows up in Montana is on far-right radical posts, but he’s sure they are out there marauding Montana’s pristine landscape along with grizzlies as terrorists.

Of course, he gives the Proud Boys, the Oath Keepers, the Q weirdos and the local militia groups all a pass. I guess he thinks it’s really patriotic that these groups stab cops in the eyeballs with American flags, smash their fingers, break their ribs, crush their vertebrae, while beating them senseless and calling them traitors.

Oh, I forgot to mention he probably thinks they should all get a high five for peeing on the walls, destroying American capitol property, and pooping on the rotunda floors.

It’s too bad Braxton cannot discern the difference between far-right propaganda and real patriotism (those who believe in the Constitution). Instead he’s like all the other radicals running around: Trump is their Ayatollah, artificial intelligence has replaced their brains and lies are the new version of truth.

Next time, Braxton, before you pick up your cellphone for the news, try reading the Constitution. We do not need an extremist representing our area.

—Marion Foley, Martin City