Dear Editor:
Earlier in Letters, I declared I am a Democrat. A Republican has responded, so we have a basis for a proper comparison.
The Republican says the claims I made are “easily debunked,” starting with my claim that “Trump and Project 2025 are determined to end public education.” In rebuttal, this Republican offers not a denial, but an explanation: “Our public education system has been hijacked by teachers’ unions to the detriment of kids.” So, I was correct in my claim that Republicans want rid of public schools, but the villains are teachers. My own kids were educated in Fairfield and their teachers were first rate. Perhaps this Republican has had a different experience, and could maybe name names? Regardless, his admission that, in fact, he has animosity towards public schools is NOT a “debunking” of my claim.
Similarly, on the issue of Health Care, for which I detailed many examples of proof that Republicans are hostile to Americans having access (trying to repeal the ACA over 60 times, for example), this Republican does not deny my claim, but instead offers his explanation: “American health care is woefully hobbled by the fact that the medical practice and pharmacies are mainly under the rule of insurance companies.” I agree that’s a problem, but it’s Democrats who offer ideas such as “single payer” and “MediCare for All” which would remove that hobbling by insurance companies. Republicans HOWL at such ideas.
Remember when Republicans were hawking “REPEAL and REPLACE”? That started over ten years ago, and TO THIS DAY we have yet to see ANY Republican health care plan. For a while, they were promising their plan “in two weeks,” but when that two weeks never came, they gave up altogether. It’s Republicans who say removing insurance companies would be against “Capitalist ideals,” and who are currently defunding medical care, medical research, dissolving medical watchdog organizations, and demonizing vaccines.
On the issue of women’s rights, I claimed Republians want to take those away, by doing away with Roe v Wade. Here, this Republican opts for a direct LIE: “we mostly hold that such action is a free choice under the law.” I hardly need remind Texans that the majority Republican Legislature has passed laws making abortion illegal in Texas, and lining up legal penalties for anyone involved. Over a hundred women’s health clinics in Texas have shut their doors since abortion was made illegal. Republicans CHEER. Free choice? Not hardly.
In his world of alternate reality, this Republican makes the affirmative statement, “there is no such thing as a trans-woman or trans-man.” The AMA affirms that ‘trans and non-binary gender identities are normal variations of human identity and expression.” Gee, who to believe? The AMA, or an aging non-medically trained hidebound Texas Republican?
Once again, I am indebted to this Republican Letter Writer for proving my points. Voters can see his confessions clearly, and hopefully will make choices at the ballot box based on the voters’ best interests and that of their loved ones, instead of swallowing false Republican talking points and propaganda.
Jeff Harrison
Buffalo TX 75831
Editor’s note: the Republican letter writer referenced submits letters to the editor to another Freestone County publication.
