Humiliation

Editor: After listening to plaintive responses as to why the GOP lost elections held recently in New York, Maryland and Virginia, I’m at a loss as to why these frustrated elephants can’t fathom the real reason for their humiliating defeats. The elections I speak of are the mayorship of New York city and the governorships of Maryland and Virginia.

Repeatedly and ad nauseam we hear flawed messages from GOP political strategists, viz., a less-than-expected turnout on the part of their constituents, not to mention voting irregularities favoring their opponents. These claims might make sense only in a sane voting system.

But do we any longer have such a system? The answer is no. I submit that the vast number of citizens residing in the large cities receiving government largess upon which they rely entirely for their livelihood have no interest whatsoever in issues affecting the citizenry at large, and have become conditioned to only vote for those promising the most stuff. Just like the lowly epsilons in Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World” who squeal like pigs for their daily supply of soma, a drug perfected to ensure one’s tranquility throughout the day. The epsilons are at the bottom of the barrel in a class-defined society and little is expected of them, so long as they get their soma and everyone’s therefore kept happy.

What this all means is that half of the population in the USA is presently working to keep a large, able-bodied but idle segment well-fed and sheltered. Perhaps fear of meeting this obvious problem head on and being branded with the time-worn label “racist”, or even worse, prevents politicians from promulgating this ugly, glaring truth. Even our combative President Trump appears reluctant to address this issue openly.

Can we thus expect things to get better? I hardly think so. But anyway, let’s make able-bodied men presently subsisting entirely on free stuff seek gainful employment, whether it be in the field of AI or exercising a mop or a broom.

Why not make this happen for the sake of hard-working Americans presently dragged down by an idle populace continuously demanding more freebies from their industrious counterparts, and who are abetted by spineless politicians who willingly oblige their demands.

With supportive law and order it can’t get any worse than it is now.

Gail Wickstrom

Sebring, Ohio

Our Public education, medicine, and pharmacy came from

Editor:

John D. Rockefeller, financed the General Education Board of 1903, our public education from cradle to grave, including our medical and pharmaceutical industry! He wanted an obedient, trained workforce, not professionals! He also wanted an allopathic medical system with patented meds from his research in his oil business, to monopolize the market. This is our medical system today with a proliferation of dangerous drugs or ones no better than placebo!

In our dreams, we have limitless resources and they yield themselves with perfect docility moulding hands. The present educational conventions fade from their minds, and unhampered by tradition, we work our good will upon a grateful rural and responsive rural folk. We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning or science. We have not to raise among them authors, editors, poets, or men of letters. We shall not search for embryo artists, painters, musicians, lawyers, doctors, preachers, politicians, statesman, of which we have an ample supply!

Thank God we had an abundance of independent highly educated teachers who ignored Rockefeller’s arrogant, egotistical beliefs, when I was in grade school and high school in the 1950s and 60s, so we weren’t deprived of the country or independent higher education!

Robert Maki

L’Anse