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Letter: No middle ground in election

By James Ault, Vancouver
Published: September 20, 2018, 6:00am

Elections are typically binary decisions, and this midterm is no exception. One side wants to dismantle ICE and the other wants to decimate ISIS and MS-13 gangs. Some would have you believe there are racists behind every tree, while others propose that individuals should be evaluated based on the content of their character.

Support Antifa rioters, or orderly Tea Party protesters; bureaucrat-dictated medical insurance vs. personal choice health care; expanded food stamps as opposed to record employment and job openings; expensive renewable energy requirements instead of abundant and independent fuels on which our economy thrives; politically weaponizing the formerly neutral DOJ, FBI and CIA or investigations into the democracy-defying deep state; defining disagreements as contemptible hate speech or allowing debate and discourse to persuade; emerging socialistic threats balanced against the obvious benefits of free market capitalism.

There is very little middle ground on these issues, and the choice is pivotal to our future as a country.

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