Mr. Lawrence McSwain criticized (Gazette, Feb 3-6) an article by Dennis Forney by using Forney's phrase "good and decent people" as an alternate label for Democrats and Republicans which is another alternate label for the "Washington elite" to do a trash job on these "good and decent people."
Actually, McSwain was cheering the trashing that Donald Trump was doing to this group. Folks, after watching elections all my life, my impression is that all candidates make emotional, hot-air promises of miraculous actions against age-old problems.
Tragically, too many people "buy into" these promises with their own emotions and biases before enough time passes to find out if the promises actually do very much. McSwain's thinking also shows a willingness to allow Trump to count the chickens before they hatch. Based on the results of many polls (see results on the internet) in the last two weeks on Trump's promises and actions so far, and based on samples of world opinion, neither are very rosy nor very praiseworthy for Trump.
McSwain also linked this Washington establishment to various crimes against the people. I, myself, can provide my own list of grievances against some form of "Washington establishment" too, but even more important is that singularly anti-government people like McSwain are so willing to give a free pass to crimes that come off of Wall Street. Trump's own business history is full of black clouds and black deeds which are also easy to find on the internet.
People have already forgotten that our 2007-08 recession (which hurt a lot of people) was caused by business practices that were too risky, and business decisions by incompetent executives. A few years earlier it was Enron and several other big corporations. And Trump is promising to destroy the regulations set up by our Washington elite to prevent a recurrence of the 2007-08 recession? Are you sure you want Trump to do that?
Arthur E. Sowers
Harbeson
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