Letter to the Editor: Democrats fulfilling a prophecy

To the Editor:

After watching the Democrat Party Presidential debates and listening to follow-up statements by many of those candidates, I am convinced that the Democrat Party is well on its way to fulfilling a prophecy.

In 1887 Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2000 years prior: “A Democracy is always temporary in nature, it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A Democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury, with the result that every Democracy will finally collapse over loose fiscal policy.”

So, what did we see in the debates? Every candidate is in favor of providing free health services to all illegals!  Several are in favor of paying off student loan debts! Some of those in favor of this hand-out are currently in congress and are paying off their own student loans. The Democrat-controlled House of Representatives is proposing to increase its members’ own pay by $4,500. Some are proposing a minimum hand-out to all taxpayers!

Even Joe Biden, who is supposed to be the “... middle of the road candidate,” is for some of these grotesque hand-outs.

The Democrat Party is no longer a really democratic party. They have become the purveyors of “freebies” in a shameless attempt to buy votes. I have not seen a Democrat in the past 20 years who really is a Democrat. And there are certainly none in the current crop who resemble JFK or any of the leaders of that party through the ‘50s and ‘60s.

The push to the far left - toward real socialism and communism - by the youthful wing of the party is truly scary. As one who fought the cold war to protect our country from both of those -isms, I am really afraid for the future of the country.

So, we have to wake up to what is happening to that party and their efforts to make this country into something the founding fathers of this nation would not recognize. Do not let these sycophants destroy our Democratic Republic. Work hard to prevent the fulfillment of the prophecy!

Lowell L. Engle
Harpers Ferry