Dear Editor,
The New Democratic Party or Fun-Time at the Kindergarten?
30 years ago my only wealthy friend disagreed one day with what I was saying and explained that he didn’t have enough money to be a Republican (he was almost a millionaire at the time). I was not and remain so today, living in retirement on social security and savings, etc. He went on to become a multi-millionaire under what he derided as “the system.” I am reminded of Bernie Sanders, millionaire, trying hard to undermine the same system that made him one. It defies logic.
The downsides to the recently leftward-jumping democrats are too calamitous to list: each of the democratic presidential wannabe’s seems to try to outdo the others in their utopian, giveaway delusions: abolish ICE, abolish Dept. of Homeland Security, abolish the Border Patrol, abolish private insurance companies [no Humana, State Farm, Blue Cross-Blue Shield, etc.] and replace with socialized medicine “free” for everyone (including illegal aliens), free college tuition for everyone, etc. – to be paid for by . . . the shrinking percentage of middle class, working taxpayers like us.
Such a system is not strictly speaking socialist; socialism means state ownership of the means of production, e.g., steel mills, coal mines, airlines, oil/gas industries, etc. The democrats’ system would be a welfare state with the government taking care of its citizens in exchange for the majority of their income going to taxes to pay for it. The simple truth is that such a system has never worked anywhere in the world where it’s been tried and does not exist anywhere today except Venezuela and North Korea. China’s rise to a world power has come from when their government abandoned it and became an economic capitalist system. It would not work here either, and the American people will not have it. Young people today in politics may not have seen it fail repeatedly; Bernie Sanders has and knows better. Logic is often immaterial to liberals.
2020 is closer than most of us realize, and the choices could not be more stark: a strong America, prosperous and with unmatched personal freedoms or a crippling tax burden to pay for a system proven to fail and led by democrats who say, “Give them bread and circuses.”
God bless America.
El Sellers
Fairfield, Texas
