Editor,
I wish to present a response to Nancy Mayer of Freeland, who so eloquently espoused the need to support the incoming administration.
To begin with, she apparently believes that Fox News is a source of propaganda and that people who watch it are ill informed and misled.
Nothing could be further from the truth. Of all the media — local, national, and worldwide — Fox is one of the few that gives views opposing leftist ideology.
While they may have their faults, they give facts and opinions not found in the “mainstream press.”
She then goes on to blame the pandemic for the economic collapse that is harming so many people and businesses. While the pandemic can be a factor in a dip in the economy, it is the heavy-handed tyrants in government that are the villains here.
Shutting down businesses may have been a good temporary idea in order to assess the scope of the danger of the pandemic, but the facts have shown that, after a few months, we knew that for people under the age of 70 the virus was not lethal and most people could continue their lives with just a few precautions.
You only need to see the pictures of the governors, mayors and other government functionaries ignoring their own stated rules to know that this is a hoax designed to destroy the people most likely to vote against them.
It is peculiar that the most “woke” among us are people who can work from home, get a paycheck and survive nicely in isolation.
While her defense of the election may have some merit, I question that she is sincere about democracy being at risk. While the electoral college will do its thing, remember it is the progressives who don’t like the electoral college and wanted to do away with it.
What Trump and conservatives want is fairness in the way elections are handled. It became obvious that the fix was in early in this past election.
States that had laws in place defining when and how ballots could be handled and counted suddenly, because of the pandemic, had those laws abridged, altered and subverted.
People who never asked for absentee ballots received them. Proof of identity and deadlines were fudged, and poll watchers were denied the right to watch the counting then sent home so new boxes could be introduced into the system.
If this is the way an honest election is run, then our democracy is already dead.
Naturally, when ballots are not separated for cause, and entered into the system, there is no way of distinguishing their validity, so there is the problem of disenfranchisement.
Do courts throw out all the ballots, disenfranchising the entire electorate, or accept the tainted results disenfranchising only half the electorate?
It is a no-win situation at best, and one that needs to be addressed and corrected.
Election day should be election day, mail in ballots should be verified and few, and proper identification is a must.
As far as supporting Mr. Biden, I fear his agenda. When he proposes to fill his cabinet with people based on their race, sex and personal proclivities rather than their abilities, I shudder.
Biden’s family dealings with some of the most tyrannical countries question his loyalty to the country he is about to lead, and his fitness for office is questionable. His only advantage is that should he be ejected from office, the next two in line to fill that office are even worse.
For the last four years, the Trump presidency has held standards which are good for the people of this country. While the left chose to “resist” and the swamp wallowed in fantasies of collusion, he increased the national wealth, employment, national standing and moral authority.
His methods may have been crude and not fitting in the salons of the “intelligentsia,” but the results were admirable. Would that Ms. Mayer had had the desire to support his agenda, we might not be in the dark times she sees today.
Fred Wilferth
Coupeville
