Truth hurts, but here it is

Sometimes the truth hurts. It should, because that is how things are corrected and made right. Too many Americans have swallowed the Kool-Aid that has led to our current situation. Here are some facts.

In 1994, military style weapons were banned in the U.S. That law was allowed to lapse by a Republican administration. Result: hundreds of men, women and CHILDREN were slaughtered by these weapons over the past 20 years.

Corporations were allowed to fund politicians. Result: Billionaires control the media and the narrative to protect their iron grip on politicians. The tax system remains slanted in their favor.

Our president talks a lot about crime and appears to think crime only happens in cities controlled by Democratic mayors. Now in D.C. he thinks that troops are the answer to solving the crime problem when the deployment of these troops cost millions of dollars to the taxpayers.

The true cause of crime exists in our social economic system. There would be very little crime if the United States provided a good education for young Americans and outlawed poverty. Young Americans lack the opportunity to work in a vibrant social economic system which leaves no one behind and crime no place to fester.

We currently have an administration that is exacerbating the cycle of poverty in the United States and attacking our educational system under the guise of religious nationalism and “wokeness.” All of this is a smoke screen to cover up the criminal and unconstitutional operations within our government.

David Sidwell

Iowa City