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Editor, News-Register:
Last week's contribution to the News-Register by Pelosi's Piedmont Parrot is very revealing. Nearly each week, we are subjected to weakly argued propaganda on former President Trump, and each essentially can be summarized as "Orange Man bad." Last week's letter concluded with "The Orange-faced loser's strategy is becoming 'Too Corrupt To Be Convicted.'" Trump hasn't been president in 2 ½ years, but do we hear equal and opposite emotions of praise of the Big Guy? Rarely. This is TDS at its finest.
Why don't we hear from TDS suffers: "I am proud I voted for Biden, and you're welcome;" "I love these gas prices so much I would be glad if you let me fill up your tank;" "It's the one-year anniversary of the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, but let me help you with your grocery bill;" "Since it's nearly fall, I want to remind you to get your 15th booster shot;" "I remember last Christmas brought an unusually early Arctic blast, but global warming is really happening."
Why do TDS sufferers have such a problem with reality? The root cause can be found in their bible, The Communist Manifesto. For example, Marx writes: "But, you will say, we destroy the most hallowed of relations when we replace home education by social" (pg. 53). After two years Weingarten dictating public school policies during COVID, why are test scores so low, and why are private schools thriving? Public schools know better than parents? How did that work for McAuliffe?
There is the hallmark of "class antagonisms" (pg. 31). Marx also notes: "The distinguishing feature of communism is not the abolition of property generally, but the abolition of bourgeois property" (pg. 48). Marx hypothesizes, "The bourgeois family will vanish..." (pg. 52). Marx highlights a flaw with the wealthy: "[The bourgeoisie] has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single, unconscionable freedom--free trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation" (pgs. 33-4).
To be a Marxist, one has to forego reality to keep the utopian theory alive. Marxism goes against human nature. It creates an opposing universe to the one that has proven to be functional. Over the passage of time, we have ample evidence that Marxism doesn't work, but every effort is being made to replace our constitutional republic with this failed theory. They can write in detail about how corrupt Trump supposedly is, but conveniently omit the laptop, calls "about the weather," millions of dollars in wire transfers, the shell corporations and more. When the Trojan horse of Marxism arrives to "improve" a democracy, why is there so much death, destruction and squalor? The TDS sufferers really need to find a new god and get some psychological help.
Mark Eddy
Wheeling