You Made Us Do It!

This is a response letter to the highly ignorant and Conservative deflecting op-ed piece the New York Times ran in their Sunday Edition.

Dear New York Times,

I'd like to address the op-ed from Sunday, May 13th's paper 'Liberals, You're Not as Smart as You Think,' by Gerard Alexander.

This editorial tries to lay out the argument people on the Left, due to their arrogance, name calling, and extremist agenda, are the real villains in Trump's America.  It reads more as a Conservative admission and threat; 'We Conservatives now realize Trump's a nightmare, but it was you Liberals who forced us to vote for him, and if you don't stop pointing out our undeniable mistake, we'll do it again!'

Alexander's argument boils down to a few different points.  First is this idea the Liberals were the ones to start picking on conservatives whites.  This is laughable.  This country started down our current political discord path when Reagan removed the Fairness Doctrine, the FCC rules which ensured equitable and balanced points of view were presented.  Within a decade after Reagan removed the rules, quality in media was replaced by conservative ideology and zealotry, aimed specifically at what conservative whites believed where their enemies.  When Fox News came on the scene, their pitch wasn't 'a conservative view of todays news.'  It was "CNN Lies," a preview of the narrative validation the network would spew for over two decades.  Having evolved, the Right's modern mantra is ignore news you don't like, usually screaming about an unfounded bias, while labeling any criticism as 'a personal attack.'

As far as Liberals hurting Conservatives by screaming 'racist,' that's on Conservatives.   When something undeniably bigoted happens (to be fair, usually from a group associated with the far right) Republicans rarely condemn it.  Most times they dismiss the racism/bigotry by implying it's just the Liberal PC police.  Meanwhile they turn themselves into victims, implying anyone condemning racism isn't just attacking the racist and racist behavior, rather attacking all people, a smear campaign against wholesome Conservative values at the hands of an unfair Liberal 'guilt by association.'  It's pity party 101.  Alexander also goes out of his way to dismiss the real racism in this country by implying it's unfounded (his Chinese dress/burrito cart argument).  I notice he avoids mentioning Charlottesville completely.

How can Mr. Alexander overlook the daily name calling and belittling coming from Trump while calling out Liberals for their civil discord?  The right voted for a man who mocked a disabled reporter.  The right voted for a man who bragged about sexually assaulting a married woman.  And they did so proudly and defiantly.  Daily insults, scandals and embarrassments from the President are a far bigger issue in our current uncivilized America.  By dismissing Trump's role in all of this, Alexander wipes away any credibility.

The article goes out of it's way tag the Conservative's many 'liberal demagogues.'  Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama, and Michael Moore are HATED by the right.  At times, they have been somewhat tone deaf when it comes to the working white poor in this country, but Alexander's argument is a comment from Pelosi in 2014, and Obama in 2008, and Michael Moore from 2017, offsets the daily mountain of unacceptable comments, lies and deceit coming from Trump and his Administration.  Sorry they hurt your feelings Gerard, but you seem to be searching pretty hard in the haystack for the needle which you hope you can hide behind.

Mr. Alexander, and bitter Trump fans realizing Rushmore isn't about to get prepped for the fifth head, you're in denial.  Trump isn't what you thought he'd be, and that's got to be hard to accept.  Fair enough.  Take your time.  Just do us a favor and stop with the pathetic "it's not our fault we hate Democrats more than anything else, hence we elected a completely unqualified sketchy businessman to the Presidency because we knew he'd anger Democrats; rather it's the Left's fault we voted for Trump even though to do so we had to get into bed with unprecedented incompetence, hypocrisy, mean spirited arguments and occasional undeniable racism."

And as to your threat to vote for Trump again, you might as well just say "we'll show you who's stupid!"  Yes you would.