Letter to the editor: Extremists on the Democratic side

It’s become a cliche for pundits to complain that extremists from both parties are causing the gridlock in today’s politics.

But is that really true?

Let’s look at the Democrats first. They have indeed become an extreme left party with socialists driving their agenda. The Democrats are pushing radical policies that conflict with the majority of Americans’ views, such as defunding the police, supporting mandates and lockdowns and less individual freedom, raising taxes sky high, increasing our national debt to dangerous levels, not securing our borders and allowing hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants to cross, discouraging drilling for our own oil and gas, supporting radical environmentalism that would destroy our prosperity and make us vulnerable to foreign enemies and using public schools to indoctrinate our children with leftist values.

Now look at the Republicans. The GOP enthusiastically supports the police, individual freedom, drilling for oil and gas, responsible border control to keep out illegals, limited government, lower taxes, local control of public schools, a responsible approach to covid with less mandates and shutdowns, a strong defense, and it opposes social experimenting in schools and the military.

The Republicans today support the same values that they did 60 years ago. It is the Democrats who are moving to the extreme left at breakneck speed while using heavy-handed confrontational tactics to bully us and stop opposition.

Dave Majernik

Plum