OPINION:
Can we all agree that the political left has become anti-everything, with nothing positive to offer beyond attacking the messenger? Just when we thought this was bad enough, the “progressives” show up.
We are watching a slow-motion implosion of the Democratic Party, as the moderate voices were silenced years ago. It’s hard to imagine anyone with any common sense wanting to follow these radicals. Political suicide is a daily occurrence on the left, and the only response is to double down on catastrophic failure. The only conclusion is that when you are completely up the creek without a paddle, you try to make your opponent seem worse than you. It’s the only option left for the left.
Everyone on the conservative right has to be demonized and made to look worse than the left. President Trump has to be colluding with the Russians because it’s the only way he can be worse then the Democrats. Justice Brett Kavanaugh has to be a sexual predator, Attorney General William Barr has to be a pawn of the president, political commentator Candace Owens has to be a Nazi sympathizer, and so on. There are no decent, honorable representatives on the right, isn’t that correct? After all, it can’t be allowed. When all else fails, the left accuses conservatives of being racists.
What a sad set of circumstances for the few silent, moderate Democratic representatives.
STEPHEN MOUNGELIS
Mount Airy, Md.
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