To the editor:
I’m not voting for Charlie Baker. I know he’ll probably win. He seems to be a good guy, a reasonably good Governor, but unfortunately he belongs to the wrong party.
Now don’t get me wrong. I’m an independent, I voted for him last time and I voted for a Republican selectman candidate as recently as May. It’s not that I think all Democrats are so great and it’s quite clear to me that the head of the Republican Party, that is the President, is a disaster. And the old saying goes “a fish stinks from the head down.”
Just for example — and there are many — while I tried for a while to say to people I don’t think he’s outright racist, the President has worked hard to convince me that he’s an outright racist. When we see an organized group of white nationalists travel cross country to conspire to attack people on the streets of Charlotte and he says there are good people, or when he wants to send 15,000 troops to fend off a few thousand tired, hungry and poor Latinos, threatens to shoot them, says they are ISIS and whatever other filthy lies regurgitate from his mouth, it seems clear that he’ll do anything for a few votes. His words against all kinds of people — both individuals and groups, his words praising violence (body slamming for example) — reverberate and have an effect.
A man that has no morals, no principles no matter how high he climbs will never be a man. Following him like a bunch of headless sheep is Congress and the Senate Republicans, whose appeasement of President Trump is the best example of a spineless conspiracy I’ve ever seen. So unfortunately for Charlie Baker this is a social club he has attached himself to and made little effort to disassociate from. Maybe it’s not really his fault but it’s time to disown an alliance with this gang of deviltry, not by good words or rhetoric but in practice. As another perhaps newer saying goes, “either you are part of the problem or part of the solution.”
While people have been convinced to think this election is about right vs. left, conservative vs. liberal, globalism vs. nationalism, Republican vs. Democrat, it is quite simply about good vs. evil.
History will not be fooled. And neither should we.
Lawrence Davis-Hollander
Sheffield
