CAUCUS: Strategy to limit voting is working

I have voted Republican since 1968. I believe in individual freedom and personal responsibility for one’s actions. In a democracy, freedoms are maintained and exercised at the ballot box. Many Republicans have decried the Democratic Party’s decades long push to enlist voters to their cause and fear that many participants may or may not be eligible voters.

The GOP has championed efforts to “insure” that only eligible persons may vote. I have supported the spirit of this, which is as common sense as believing in law and order.

I know that our rights may be taken away by fascists, communists and socialists and that informed voting is the people’s defense against this fate; so, imagine my surprise when the Brent Regan Party (BRP) began championing classic strategies to deny the vote to as many eligible Republican voters as possible. By making voting as difficult as possible the BRP must believe that I am better served by deferring my right to vote to them ­— this is revealing.

Democrats have proclaimed that Trump wants to be a dictator. They fear demagogues and are sensitive to well-documented strategies they use to gain individual political power. Demagogues appeal to emotions, desires and prejudices of the people rather than use rational argument, discussion, and respect for opponents and voters to gain power. They champion the “simplest” solutions and advocate limiting, and then trampling on the rights of their opponents — or anyone not smart enough to support them or be them.

Brent Regan’s position in “Caucus saboteurs,” an elaborate editorial piece, is that <7% voter participation in the 2024 Caucus was a great achievement; but, for what and whom?

JIM MANNING

Hayden