Who's been duped? Check letter comments online

As tough foreign policy, say some conspiracy theorists, President Franklin Roosevelt allowed the Japanese to attack Pearl Harbor, so that our ignorant, blind and/or cowardly citizenry would finally help fight the fascists in Europe and the Pacific.

So, too, perhaps, after 9/11, the Democrats gave the Republicans enough rope to hang themselves, resulting, seven years later, in major Democratic victories.

More recently, however, the Democrats injected hundreds of billions of dollars of fast-action government money into jobs creating infrastructure, to stop the financial panic that might have turned us into a Second or Third World country. Clearly, they overestimated our public. Now they're on the verge of being booted out!

Tea Party types furiously bash spending but never mention panic. They aggressively oppose bad government, but never mention massive corporate lobbying and the revolving door, the corporate fox guarding its own regulatory henhouses.

Repeatedly they offer simple, plain-spoken, unwavering proposals on issues by simply pretending they aren't vicious dilemmas. They grab the bull by one horn.

Like the crazed Captain Ahab leading his doomed ship into the maelstrom, they cast aside the quadrant of balanced wisdom.

Before the election, however, I invite you to come back stage, to TheGazette.com online opinion section. Here you're not limited in number of comments. It's sometimes rough, “no harm, no foul.” Unlike the corporate funded ads, the moderated debates, the calls, you really see “where's the beef” and who's been naively duped.

Brad Wilson

Springville