May 21, 2019: Optimism trumps pessimism * Letter to the Editor * OPINION * Del Rio News-Herald
Letter
to the Editor,
Optimism
trumps pessimism
The
Democratic Leadership is filled with doom and gloom prognosticators who tell us
that the world is going to end; in 10 years according to Democratic
presidential candidate Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke, or in 12 years according
to Democratic U.S. Representative from New York Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Unless
we heed their dire and dismal warnings, sacrifice our lifestyle at the altar of
the god of climate change, who demands we change everything or else we
die.
Like
who wants to listen to someone who’s always talking about the world ending and
us dying? Not me!
They
are always talking about death; how they are for abortion, physician-assisted
suicide, and euthanasia.
Like
who wants to hear about that all the time? Definitely not me!
They
tell us if we want to continue living we’ll have to give up eating hamburgers
because cows are bad for the environment. We’ll have to not use plastic straws
to slurp drinks because they’re causing dangerous things to the environment.
Like
that’s a bummer, not eating hamburgers and not sipping from plastic straws. What
party-poopers they are!
They
tell us we will have to not travel by air because something about airplanes
spewing too much carbon emissions. But I see them traveling all over the
country. I wonder if they’re traveling by bus or by train, because I’m sure
they wouldn’t be traveling by airplane, if they truly practiced what they
preached.
And another
thing, they’re always preaching about something. They’re always telling us what
we should be thinking, and what we should be saying and what we should be
doing.
Like
who made them the boss of us.
They’re
like the worst nightmare bosses; always angry and complaining; nothing makes
them happy.
The
Democratic Leadership is like Debbie Downer, always pushing pessimistic policies
that are downbeat and dreary. Don’t they realize people prefer upbeat and
uplifting platforms?
The
Republican Party is the Party of Life, and the life-of-the-party.
It’s
clearly evident: Democrats are the Party of Pessimism; Republicans are the Party
of Optimism.
Marian Casillas, Ed.D.
Del Rio, Texas