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| Trumpenstein |
NOTE: This letter was not printed at www.htrnews.com (Manitowoc Herald Times) so Im printing it here.
It should be noted that the usual cast of right wing letter writers have had free reign there lately.
This is now the second letter of mine that the HTR has rejected this year.
I've been watching the horror show that
has become the Republican 2016 campaign with a combination of both
amusement and revulsion. Most interesting has been the flight of
frightened candidates trying to saw their own legs off in order to
extract themselves from the Trump tower of terror in which they are
now locked.
It is after all both election and
Halloween season and just as the Green Bay “Gags the Clown”
horror film promotion has gone virally wrong with imitators doing
real harm now Republicans (not just Trump) have been taking the
“creepy clown” act into the all to real realm of public policy.
Then State Senator and now Congressman
running for re-election Glenn Grothman authored a bill that would
have criminalized single parenthood (SB507) claiming that raising a
child without a father is the equivalent of child abuse even when
spousal abuse is the cause.
At the same time we saw now Senator Ron
Johnson publicly testify in favor of legislation that would have
blocked law suits holding the Catholic Church responsible for
covering up and reassigning pedofile priests allowing them to offend
again.
Now we see that Governor Scott Walker
laundered $750,000 in contributions from lead paint interests in
exchange for legislation effectively blocking still other law suits
by children who were permanently damaged by those companies and their
products.
Trump may be that scary clown selling
fear and loathing but he is just a shadow of these real monsters who
rape the public interest and bring crime into our state houses. They
manifest their twisted nature into real policy and that should be
what we fear the most. The cure for fear is courage and we must find
that courage to realize our mistakes and show up at the poles to end
their reign of terror.
