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Don’t let ‘conservatives’ destroy our ideals

Don’t let ‘conservatives’ destroy our ideals

To the Editor:

This is in regards to Sen. Thom Tillis email of 3:10 a.m. Saturday morning, Dec 4, “Preventing $450,000 payments to illegal immigrants.”

The former “president” did untold damage to America with his tax cuts and his pandemic response, as well as his actions at our borders. Those who thinks it’s OK to separate parents from their children as was done by his regime, have even less heart than him.

I am a constituent, 73, a USAF Vietnam veteran, seven years in the service.

The email, and the proposed legislation, is the most perfect example of fake news, perfected by the disgraced, dishonorable, disgusting 45th “president” who continues to lie and divide us, thanks to the likes of Sen. Tillis. 

The former “president” and all the other planners/leaders of the January 6 attack on Washington, D.C., should be behind bars. That he remains free to lie, divide and incite, is totally the result of senators who, fearful of his rabble-rousing, failed in their duty to the Constitution and their oath of office.

Republican “conservatives” have absolutely no problem descending to the depths of divisive anti-American rhetoric in order to fire up their racist, extremist, radical white supremacist base. It worked for 45, right? It worked once. 

People of good will had no idea how many confederate-minded traitors to the ideals of our founders existed in today’s America. They must not prevail, despite all of their efforts to bias our voting processes in every way that might seem possible by people who have no regard for our country and its forward progress.

William Aylor

Bryson City 

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