In my letter to the editor  headed “Think again before voting for Trump,” I started it with the sentence, “Can Trump save the Republican Party?” It was published Jan. 3. Well we now know the answer. I did not think at the time he had a chance.    After the worst president we ever had — George W. Bush — and what he did to this country, and then that do-nothing Republican Congress we had for the last six years that shut  this country  down and threatened I don’t know how many times to do it again, I didn’t think they had a chance. It is obvious we have a lot of weak-minded voters in this country who did vote for Trump.

I have mentioned in a previous letter that there are people in this country who would vote for a pig for president if you would put a Republican sign in front of it. Trump is a good example. I have never heard of a candidate who was running for president to sound more like he was running to be a dictator like Trump did. Weak-minded people obviously like that kind of forceful speaking.

He said one of his first objectives he was going to do was get rid of Obamacare. He has recently changed his mind on this.  He has no plan of his own to take its place, and besides that the American people have wanted universal health care for a long time. He has now made it clear that he is going to give the top 1 percent a 10 percent reduction in their taxes.  The top 1 percent have more money than the bottom 50 percent. There are Republican voters who actually believe that when the Republicans talk about reducing taxes that their taxes will be reduced.   Good luck to that fallacy.

We have tried trickle-down economics before when  the two Bushes  were presidents. This country is not going to straighten out until we redistribute the wealth back to the middle class. The way to do that is to raise the taxes on the filthy rich and reduce the taxes on the middle class. They will put that money back into the economy and create jobs due to supply and demand.

I want to thank Paul Tuveson  for his letter to the editor published Nov. 18, titled “Stick to the facts on Sec. Clinton.” In his letter, he did his best to educate John Forman  on his incorrect information and nonfactual news. The Republicans  have called Hillary a liar so many times, but they don’t know what the lie is supposed to be. Weak-minded people believe when they have heard this fallacy so many times it must be true.  Those Republicans use this tactic all the time. I could give several examples of this tactic. Thanks again, Paul, for straightening out Mr. Forman.   

Wayne Thorson

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