Reading some Washington Republican candidates’ profiles for elections, certain terms from their national culture wars mislead us.
Take critical race theory (CRT); Sue Forde states it’s Marxist, a word flung to scare people away from Democrats.
CRT is one analysis of the magnitude of Black Americans’ experiences in U.S. history.
I compare simplistic criticism of CRT with concealed mistreatment of Chinese laborers building our nation’s railroad systems; hidden graves of indigenous children at church boarding schools; isolated internment camps of Japanese Americans during WWII.
Suppression of history, and revisionism, does us harm.
Marxism is followed by a small minority of Americans since the Bolshevik and Chinese revolutions.
Tens of millions of people have been imprisoned and murdered due to Marxist practices, such as horrors committed in Ukraine and by Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge.
Most of us reject it for democratic governance.
Lower taxes/loopholes for the wealthy, fewer regulations; weakening public schools; book banning; undermining government officials’ conscientious work; big lie election deniers; LGBTQ intolerance; reducing Social Security benefits all embody Republican campaigns.
These talking points must be scrutinized for duplicity and understood for real-life ramifications if ever implemented.
Where are Republican commitments to safeguard the Earth by ending global warming?
Solutions to stop inflation/high prices?
Support for a national minimum wage of $15 per hour? In their calls for freedom, do they champion women’s private decisions about reproduction?
No.
Who benefits from political policies is the bottom line.
Please vote in the upcoming elections.
Gayle Brauner
Port Angeles