OPEN LETTER TO DEMOCRATS

by Ruth A. Sheets

May 16, 2020



Dear Fellow Democrats.

I have finally succumbed to the realization that to defeat the child-man Trump and his fellow playground bullies, we will need to use some of the tactics these bully children have used.  It is truly painful for me to come to this because I believe it is better to give good for bad, turn the other cheek, and all that.



I have discovered, as many of you have, that when dealing with young spoiled children, kids who have no controls placed on them, it is not possible to use methods one would use with thinking caring adults.



So, here it is.  We need a three-word slogan that can be repeated online, on the air, at virtual rallies and town meetings and more.



The three-word slogan, REPUBLICANS DON’T CARE!



It could work something like this:



REPUBLICANS DON’T CARE

that your parents and friends are dying of COVID19 because proper PPE is not available for first line workers.



REPUBLICANS DON’T CARE

that it is wrong to suppress the vote for any American citizens.  They love doing it.



REPUBLICANS DON’T CARE

that our postal service is being strangled to keep people from voting safely.



REPUBLICANS DON’T CARE

that your children are forced to attend schools that don’t have the funds to provide the best education for them.



REPUBLICANS DON’T CARE

that you don’t have health care.



REPUBLICANS DON’T CARE

that you might have to choose whether to get your mom’s medicine or eat that day.



REPUBLICANS DON’T CARE

that you will have to choose whether to exercise the right to vote and put your life at risk, or not vote at all.



REPUBLICANS DON’T CARE

that farm workers live in appalling conditions, work incredibly hard, get paid a pittance,  while Big agriculture gets the money.



REPUBLICANS DON’T CARE

that the Environmental Protection Agency is letting polluters put your health at risk.



REPUBLICANS DON’T CARE

that the wages of many workers have increased less than 5% in more than 40 years while CEOs have seen increases of a couple hundred percent.



REPUBLICANS DON’T CARE

that your rights are slowly being taken away by the unqualified judges they are putting on the courts as lifetime appointments.



REPUBLICANS DON’T CARE

that they are lying at rates nearly unheard of while claiming what good Christians they are.  It works for them.



REPUBLICANS DON’T CARE

that you were raped and forced to carry an unwanted pregnancy.



REPUBLICANS DON’T CARE

for you and your needs if you are not rich, white, straight, and male, or perhaps, a totally submissive woman.



I am sure far better writers than I can word these more effectively, but I do believe this is the direction we should go.  People don’t want to believe their leaders don’t care especially when they voted for those leaders to care for people like them.  When they get a whiff that maybe their leaders don’t even like them, they don’t want it rubbed in their faces.  Maybe, though, that’s what we need to do for a change. 



So, let’s tell the truth, but do it in a way that voters will take notice that the REPUBLICANS in power really DON’T CARE about anything but money and power, theirs.