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Fear fuels Republican polls

The Republicans are spreading fear and hysteria. Socialism, Marxism, Communism, Mexican and Muslim invasions. It sure is working. Their polls are up. Their propaganda machine, Fox News, has used everything but the boogeyman to fire up their racist base.

They have been singing that tune for years now. Now, it’s the fear that Muslims will take over our country, refuse to learn our language and leave us in the dust. You know, kinda like what we did to the Native Indians when we were the illegal aliens. However, we classified that invasion as “Manifest Destiny.”

It astounds me that when a stranger crosses our border in search of food, a job or medical care illegally, they are treated as a foreign virus. However, when an American corporation crosses our border in search of slave wages and tax breaks, they are revered, rewarded and endorsed by the Republican Party that claims to be protecting our country’s jobs and resources. What disgraceful hypocrites.

Jimmy Pappas

Coeur d’Alene

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