Here's my LTTE re the President's Speech today: Fear Mongering Benefits Who?

[rosesaylavee]

Sent to the Chicago and northern suburban papers this am:

Fear Mongering Benefits Who?

Dear Friends and Neighbors and specifically those living in fear of this administration. Please take a moment and ask yourself if those who are promoting your fear are benefiting from this situation? How much money and influence are they acquiring? I hate to see good people duped. A good case in point to reflect upon is the recent fear mongering over the President’s speech to our school children. Did the speech reflect what you were told to expect? Was it substantially different from what Presidents Reagan and H.W. Bush said to our children? Our country IS as beautiful and brave and courageous as you hope it to be. Please open your eyes now and refuse to be duped by those who would use you for their own gains.


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I DO want the other side to hear what I have to say. I know I personally don't respond well to being called a nutjob which was my first inclination in writing a LTTE ... somehow I don't manage to hear anything past the name calling when confronted by someone opposed to my POV. :P I thought too that it may be news to whoever is reading this that I (and I think many others here) want to think of them as neighbors and friends (which I once did before the 2000 election) - and if I don't tell them here, how else would they know it?

Not sure what kind of reaction this will get... hopefully a mostly positive one. Eternal optimist that I am, I think there's always the chance that a few thoughtful people will read this and think 'hmmmm, maybe she's got a point'.