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Letter: Modern GOP is sad

By Roy Wilson, Vancouver
Published: November 15, 2020, 6:00am

It is both crass and amazing how Republicans always seem to put self above others and party above country.

If Black people are disadvantaged, they must be lazy; if the top (mainly white) 1 percent gets huge tax cuts, they deserve it because they are “job creators.”

If Republicans win a national election by only a small number of votes (Gore v. Bush comes to mind), they smugly tell Democrats to “Get over it.”

If they lose an election by millions of votes plus a solid Electoral College majority, they whine and cry that there must be major fraud involved and bring on the lawyers.

They have removed the words decency, honesty and integrity from their dictionaries, and replaced them with the words lie, cry and sue.

There is little if any morality left in today’s GOP. It’s not “America First” so much as “Me First.”

And that is sad.

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