Letter to the editor: 'Real world' of conservatives

It seems letter-writer Tony Pittore (“Real world vs. fantasy world,” May 29, TribLIVE) has decided to elucidate the rest of us on the difference between the conservatives’ “real” world and the liberals’ “fantasy” world.

I’m rather curious as to whether Mr. Pittore’s “real world” is the one where:

• The Democratic Party is populated by pedophiles and cannibals

• A child trafficking operation is run out of a D.C. pizza parlor

• Hillary Clinton was personally responsible for the Benghazi massacre

• Bill and Hillary Clinton are responsible for more murders than Tony Soprano

• A previous POTUS was actually ineligible to hold the office

• The coronavirus pandemic was a “Democratic hoax” (or alternately, that George Soros, Bill Gates and Dr. Anthony Fauci were responsible for intentionally loosing the virus on an unsuspecting world)

• That willfully thumbing one’s nose at public health mandates and protocols enacted to try to stem the pandemic was a patriotic act

• That a nefarious coalition of ne’er-do-wells recruited, organized and bankrolled by Soros hijacked the 2020 presidential election

• That the Capitol rioters of Jan. 6 were likewise merely a gathering of “patriots” engaging in peaceful protest.

Is this your “real world,” Mr. Pittore?

As Elvis Costello so elegantly wrote over 40 years ago, “I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused.” Or, maybe as cartoonist Walt Kelly famously penned in his “Pogo” comic strip, “We have met the enemy, and he is us.”

Russ Schmidt

New Kensington