Andrew Allis, Granville

North Dakota is thankfully a solidly red (and sane) state. Therefore, when it comes time for the general November election Democrats have no other choice than to present themselves as “moderate Democrats.” Since nationally there are no more moderates remaining, the party having now been hijacked by the radical left, don’t let them get away with this farcical facade and run away from their chosen party affiliation.

This a party that has fully and unabashedly embraced Marxist Socialism and sent inflation soaring to record levels by their reckless spending, destroyed the economy and thereby devastated your 401K’s, IRA’s, and retirement savings accounts, a party that has obliterated our southern border opening the U.S. up to the world with well over 4 million illegals pouring into our country since the Democrats took power 2 years ago, a party that has unrelentingly and unconstitutionally attacked your 1st and 2nd Amendment rights, weaponized government agencies such as the FBI, NSA, and IRS against you, even despicably siccing the FBI on parents going to school board meetings concerned about the leftist propaganda (CRT, sexualizing students with outright LGBTQ+++ porn) being poured down the throats of their children in pure indoctrination as opposed to traditional education, the party of draconian unconstitutional decrees and edicts (not even passed laws) during what amounted to a bad flu season, which locked you in your house, destroyed businesses, made you and your children wear useless masks and shoot experimental drugs into your body in order to keep your job, the party that wants to pack the Supreme Court, defund the police while lawlessness and out of control crime run unabated in Democrat run major U.S. cities, the party that purports itself to be the ones who “follow the science,” while believing there are more than two sexes (some 80 genders and counting!), can’t define what a woman or man actually is, promotes the giving of powerful and harmful hormone blocking drugs to prepubescent boys and girls without their parents knowledge or permission, actively advocates for the mutilation of children’s genitalia in a vain attempt to do what can’t be done, i.e. change their sex, demonizes half of Americans (their political enemies) as domestic right-wing terrorists, the party in which 49 out of 50 Democrat Senators voted, after the reversal of Roe vs. Wade by the Supreme Court, for an extreme abortion bill that would make it legal to kill an unborn child right up to point of birth.

You may argue, well, the local elections don’t involve many of these national issues, so it’s a moot point. Indeed, it isn’t. By being a registered Democrat these local candidates on the down-ticket are obviously voting for the top of their party’s ticket and therefore voting for, and endorsing, all of the above-named atrocities we see that this far left Socialist party now enthusiastically supports. There are logically only two possibilities. Either they support the outright evil and destructive policies of the present Democrat Party, or they are ignorant of what their party has become, seeing it still as grandpappy’s party as if the year were 1960 and it was the party of Jack Kennedy who, by the way, not only wouldn’t recognize his party but would be thrown out of it by the totalitarian Marxists who now control it.

On either count, full knowledge of its destructive and evil policies that have decimated this nation and thus being complicit in it, or ignorance of them, these down-ballot local Democrat candidates are disqualified and rendered not fit to hold the offices they are running for, any of them, from dogcatcher to school board member, State Senator or Representative, to Secretary of State, to Agriculture Commissioner, to Public Service Commissioner. Their very affiliation with this corrupt, bankrupt, and yes, now manifestly evil party, is disqualifying in and of itself.