Lee Lucas writes that liberals and the media want Trump stopped at all costs.
To the Editor:
It's my view that liberalism and globalism have a political alliance. Both world views are promoted by the stock market.
I see this with the leadership of both major U.S. political parties, which are controlled by rich donors. Both parties' leaders are really in cahoots when it comes to immigration, trade and foreign policy.
Please notice how the Republican-majority Congress and the Democrat president are in a agreement when it comes to government spending. They agree on the latest Asian trade deal (Trans-Pacific Partnership), too.
The globalists control the entire media. The political leaders' monstrous betrayal of the American working class has been hidden by the media, and it couldn't have happened without their support.
They cannot allow a nationalist like Donald Trump to become president. The hostility against Trump has increased. The political leadership and the media will work together to throw every obstacle in his way. Big-money interests will not give up their power without a bitter fight.
The liberals and globalists will scream "racist" at the slightest deviation from their political correctness rules. This tactic has worked well before, with the cosmopolitan, college-educated class. These sophisticated people defend globalization, which has been harmful to the American worker.
Liberals and globalists don't want borders anymore. They want to erect a global "super state" ruling over a low-income workforce. These snobs look down upon the manual worker. With delight, they will hand over our jobs to the world because they truly believe the American worker is unfit.
No longer is the debate between liberalism and conservatism. Now, the debate is between globalism and nationalism.
Lee Lucas
Gibbstown
Romney's a bad choice to stop Trump
To the Editor:
What was the Republican elite political establishment thinking?
They trotted out the guy who lost the last presidential election by more than 3 million votes, Mitt Romney, to smooth things over with the rank and file Republicans for the "donor class" Republicans.
What made them think that using a vulture capitalist -- who bought up American companies, sliced and diced them, then shipped the carcasses and the remaining jobs abroad -- was going to convince Donald Trump's populist supporters to abandon that movement?
I think "The Empire Strikes Back" pales in comparison to "Make America Great Again" as a slogan.
Trump's voters see establishment Republicans as complicit in an incompetently prosecuted war and complicit in spending the country into $19 trillion of public debt. This negates Republican claims of being as the party of fiscal responsibility.
The conservative establishment has stood idly by and let it all happen.The movement is sick of the bait and switch Washington, D.C., crowd.
While bobbing up and down in the low-wage economy the political elite have built for America over 35 years, the Republican rank and file have grabbed the last straw floating by. That straw happened to have a giant red-white-and-blue "Make America Great Again" slogan emblazoned on its side.
They've decided to sink or swim in that lifeboat rather than jump back into the "bankster"-corrupted economy that the donor class has had its their politicians build. Who can blame them? This is destroying the American Dream.
Will Trump make a good president? Probably not. But I can certainly understand the frustration of the people who have given control of government to the Republican political empire, and have been handed more deficits and debt that they want no part of paying off.
Roy Lehman
Woolwich Township
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