TheWiseOldFart

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart If you claim to be a Republican, and your lips are moving, you are lying. But, I’m being redundant. I turned 21 in 1967. The first election in which I could participate was in 1968. Tough year. I have less than a handful of “heroes.” One of them was murdered in April of 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, and the brother of another, John F. Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy, was murdered in Los Angeles in June. He would have received my first vote. The winner of the 1968 election was Richard M. Nixon, He resigned in 1974, replaced by V.P. Gerald Ford. Democrat and Governor of Georgia, Jimmy Carter, became America’s 39 th President. In 1980, a former actor and Governor of California, Ronald Reagan won the election, running as a Republican. Nixon was the last, true Republican. He was also an excellent president with many accomplishments on the record. However, he was also a criminal. Ford was a “seat filler,” who will be only be remembered as the man who pardoned Nixon. Carter wa...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart I have written many stories about the Republican Party taking its final breath on January 20, 2017. Although this is a fact, it’s not surprising. For more than 15 years, when the TEA Party was allowed to invade the former Grand Old Party, all right-wing politicians began moving farther to the right. Today, they have become fascists. However, what I never told you in so many words, is that the Democratic Party no longer exists, and hasn’t for the last 80 years. In 1932, the greatest President of the United States in history was elected for the first time. Over the next 13 years, Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s policies were focused on the working man and woman; the majority. Although he was reluctant to enter into the second World War, he prepared our nation for the possibility. When we were attacked by the Japanese on December 7, 1941, we were ready to help our allies defeat the evil forces of fascism. There has never been a president like FDR and I doubt there ever...