No future in far-right

It strikes me as a very simple process for Republicans to regain control of the party as a viable enterprise. Ignore the lunatic-fringe far-right. Tell them thanks, it was nice and in some ways you helped for a while, but you are killing us now.

What are they going to do and where will they go? If they stay home, Democrats win. Form a third party? Democrats win. They are not going to hook up with the Democrats; there is simply nothing for them to do but support the Republican Party as the lesser of evils. What will Grover Norquist do? Mount a primary challenge to everyone who tells him to go back in his hole? Democrats would win.

There is simply no place or future for the fringe influence on the Republican Party. Thank them and kiss them goodbye. overseas to take care of the poor and helpless in other countries and start keeping the money in the U.S. to help our poor and helpless. They need to stop giving all of the money to those on welfare and insist they get into job training, learning a trade and then going to work before we stop their welfare checks. The politicians need to start enforcing our immigration laws, make employers verify the status of every job applicant and punish the employers who fail to do so, so that legal residents can have the jobs, not the illegals.

But will that happen? Only if we Americans put our foot down and insist that our politicians do it or they will find themselves sitting in the unemployment line too. our journalists and our leaders?

I have many friends and family who do not agree on politics and other issues, but we respect each other. We listen to each other. We are not condescending, and we do not call each other names.

Wouldn’t it be refreshing if we could read more about people working to find the good in each other, even though we might have different opinions or political party affiliations? We learn by listening to each other, not by alienating each other. Democrats or Republicans love our country and want the best for its people and the future. We have different ideas of how to reach these goals.

I hope Thomas can also strive to “keep the promise of our founders” as she so challenges her readers.