Letter to the editor: Democrats' hate & despair

Four years ago, I opined in this paper that the then-Democratic presidential candidates — Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Jill Stein — were a collection of washed-out, used-up, worn-out hippies who hadn’t had a new idea since the ’60s and who would ultimately be rejected by America. I was excoriated by many writers. Hmmmm.

Now, four years later, the Democratic candidates are the same old worn-out hippies interspersed with a few new wannabes still trying to sell their rejected ideology. Worse, their recent so-called “debate” exposed the Democratic Party as the party of hate and despair. What happened to “Hope and Change?”

Their entire thrust is “We hate Trump and we hate his supporters, and we will save America by giving it away” and “We know socialism has never worked anywhere in the world but we can make it work because we are smarter than you.”

They made it clear that you cannot be a true Democrat until you have convinced yourself that you are a “victim,” either black, gay, female, LGBT or whatever, and you have been exploited by some white guy.

They also made it clear that the current Dem-controlled Congress’s job is not to work to improve our economy, health care, border security, trade deals or anything else; it is to sit around and listen to Adam Schiff make up untrue parodies about Trump and investigate anyone who supports Trump until he leaves.

The debate was more of a pre-election wake than anything.

Bob Jacobs

Unity