Fear tactics and misinformation
The propaganda is coming thick and heavy. Election politics is getting negative. Mud is slinging, and lies are multiplying. Truth has taken a vacation.
Look, we all need to calm down. The candidates are chosen by the respective parties. We are expected to vote for one or the other. They are both telling us that the end of democracy is near, and that unless we vote for them, well, just kiss America goodbye.
Some say that a civil war may ensue. They try to scare us into voting against rather than for something.
People have lost faith in the system. They have lost faith in the honesty of our government.
Some say they will leave America if so-and-so is elected. They would bail out of America and give up their citizenship to live in a better country.
Here is my response: Vote! Do not be intimidated or bamboozled by all the craziness. Do some research.
Do not just go to the same old websites to get your information. Your navigation and clicks are recorded by Google and all the rest so that you will be presented with ideas and “facts” that agree with your already formed opinions.
There is a lot of information out on the web. Some of it complete propaganda. A lot of it is. But there are some truthful sites, too.
Find them. Do fact checks of your own.
No one said it was easy. A lot is riding on this election, and there is going to be a lot of BS. Filter it. You can find the truth. It is out there.
And stop yelling at one another. Calm down. Despite what both sides are saying, this election is the end of the world. They just want you to think it is.
And even if it is existential and we witness the end of voting and democracy, we still have more guns than people in the U.S. That’s the final and last option.
So, breathe. And vote.
Tom Beach
Waimea
Trump is ‘cleanest’ person in Washington
It’s amazing how the Democrats and media have transformed Kamala Harris from the dumbest, incompetent presidential candidate to a brilliant candidate within a couple of weeks after replacing the incompetent sitting president without a vote of the Democratic Caucus.
This woman changes direction and supports the popular policies, whatever it is at the time it’s made. Considering the country changed to a banana republic in three short years, I have difficulty in reasoning why anyone would support the Democratic Party.
The media demonized Donald Trump while ignoring the corrupt Joe Biden and his broken family.
Trump, on the other hand, is the cleanest person in Washington, going through two phony impeachments and continuous lawsuits which, by the way, district attorneys and judges are found to be conducting fraud.
These leftists are acting in the open without concern, with the media and Biden administration backing them and possibly working with them. The people running the country want to continue their control with an “elected” puppet president in office for their signature only.
What I see and experience is that Republican presidents fix problems, while Democrat presidents create problems and blame others for their failures.
James Igawa
Keaau