Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

  The election of 2024 could very well be the last one we ever get if the wrong person wins. Hopefully the generations that have the most at stake will go to the voting booth and pull the handle that keeps our democracy alive.

  There are rumors of all sorts flying around about both major candidates and when it comes to health issues we can only speculate as to the truth. The age thing is possible in both as neither man is a spring chicken. Age does not make you sit on the bench as much as whether your whole being is broken would require you to stop playing in the sand box. Trump is reported to have an STD and with his lifestyle it is believable and his hero was sick when he died. His mental well being has been questioned but anyone that consumes McDonalds all the time would be lucky not to have brain issues.

  A call to send National Guard troops from other republican led states to challenge federal authority on the southern border of Texas is not a bright move. If I were a guardsman in one of the states I would refuse to go to Texas as it is not my state that I am assisting, and it is an attempt to overthrow the US government. Crossing the border is a mistometer not a felony. Seeking asylum is not a crime. What the governor of Texas is doing is according to the Supreme Court. May be time to send forces to Texas and make arrests and removal of criminal elements

  At present one of our greatest difficulties as a nation is the fact that we are not using duplex communication devices. By that I mean we are speaking into a radio that is broadcasting and never listening to anything or anybody in response to any issue. If we start to use telephones and take time to listen to a response when we make a point, and I mean listen not just hear a response we may be able to fill the potholes in our political highway..

Please use your better judgement and let this Democratic Republic have a 250th Anniversary.