Dear Editor:
Ron Lowe (Letters, June 28) wants to convince us that we’ll be better off electing a Democrat, rather than a Republican, for president in 2016. Really? Well, according to Ralph Nader and others who tell the truth, there is only a “dime’s worth of difference” between the political parties. Both are ruled by the military-industrial-Zion complex, so now, on this 4th of July, as we celebrate the birth of our (once) land of the free, we have soldiers and police patrolling our streets hoping to thwart a possible attack by “terrorists.”
Who are these “terrorists” about to menace Hometown, USA? Mr. Lowe points to the source, “two expensive and unwinnable wars of occupation” started by Bush and his cabal of neocons, but he doesn’t mention that the Democrats, with few exceptions, joined them in their clamor for these disastrous wars. We elected Obama to end the wars, but he has expanded them to destroy Libya, another country that never harmed us, and to start and fuel a civil war in Syria. These wars have killed millions of innocent people who have never harmed us. Are we so stupid and arrogant as to believe that we can kill millions of them, destroy their countries, create hordes of homeless refugees, and expect no backlash?
There’s no hope in either Republicans or Democrats. Both have sold us down the river. We need to elect a third party, a Peace Party, or better yet, join a march on Washington with pitchforks and ropes, tar and feather every politician we can catch, and install a philosopher-king.
T. Weed