Reader showcases political spectrum in election year

Dear Editor

Even if you, as a Republican voter, vote because you hope you’ll get a tax cut, or you’re hoping they’ll deregulate your business so you can freely pollute, or cheap out on building materials, or whatever your jam is, how can you not see the other hallmark of Republican rule, especially since the Trump administration? The rest of us can see it. Republicans go into government to enrich themselves or to dismantle its ability to help people the Republicans feel are less deserving, the poor, the marginalized, minorities, blue collar workers, and the elderly. If they aren’t doing either one of those things, they are disrupting and dismantling agencies and departments of the government to prove to themselves and to other people that government of, by, and for the people can’t work.
Iowa is a perfect example. The Reynolds administration is a train wreck, in part because there are no checks and balances on their worst political instincts. They know, full well, that their policies are unpopular and cruel, but there is no one to stop them. Rob Sand tried to warn Iowans about their malfeasance, but they legislatively gagged him. So, Iowa becomes the worst possible version of Mississippi. For example, a six-week abortion ban, reduced child labor law protections, sending Iowa’s National Guard to the Southern border of the US for a political stunt and to prove fealty to the man to tried to overturn a free and fair national election.
In your cluelessness, and undoubtedly out of habit, you are continuing to vote for a political party that is increasingly anti-American, against your own interests, and exacerbating political division and inequality, which both destabilize and agitate the nation, making it ripe for being overthrown from within and without. The Republicans, through Project 2025, are preparing to do just that.

William Windsor
Fort Madison