I have a suggestion to all the anarchists rioting and tearing down statues — angry at the history of mistreatment of African Americans. Instead of toppling remnants of history, I suggest toppling the Democratic Party because of the following history:

• The Republican Party was founded originally to end slavery.

• Republican Lincoln defeated Democrat Douglas over the issue to end slavery.

• The vote to abolish slavery passed by 100% Republicans but only 23% Democrats.

• The vote to give citizenship for freed slaves passed by 94% Republicans but 0% Democrats.

• The vote to give all citizens voting rights passed by 100% Republicans but 0% Democrats.

• The Ku Klux Klan originally was backed by the Democratic Party.

• Democratic Sen. Robert Byrd (mentor to Clinton and Biden) was an exalted Klansman.

• Republican President Eisenhower integrated the U.S. military.

• Democratic President Wilson showed the racist movie “The Birth of a Nation” in the White House in 1915.

• The Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed in the House by 80% Republicans but only 63% Democrats, and in the Senate by 82% Republicans but only 69% Democrats.

Now is the time to correct the mistreatment of African Americans by voting the Democratic Party out of existence and splitting the Republican Party into a Republican Pro-Trump (RPT) and a Republican Anti-Trump (RAT) two-party system.

Dr. Joel I. Last

Greensburg

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