Letter: No right to complain if you don’t vote

I'm an Independent when it comes to voting. I have voted both ways in the past. I am having trouble though in this year's election. I never thought I'd see some of the stuff going on with our candidates this year. I'm talking about both parties, they say anything to get votes.

I will vote this year, my right and duty. If you don't vote, then don't complain to me. I don't think we have very good candidates this year in either party. Things are going on in our great country that I thought would never happen.

In the 1960s, Lyndon B. Johnson got in office and what did he do? He passed bills to give people whatever people wanted, it was a free handout for most people. And it hasn't changed, has it? We have one candidate who is promising people everything. I also remember LBJ starting the bombing in Vietnam and it all went down hill from then on. I think most of you remember what party LBJ was a member of. President Richard Nixon ended the war in the early 1970s.

In closing, I'll say this, vote people or forever hold your peace.

Don Taylor

Cedar Rapids