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Letter: A campaign of manipulation

By Gail Burgess, Camas
Published: August 18, 2022, 6:00am

While I applaud Ms. Young’s letter to the editor appealing for unity in solving our nation’s many problems (“Join together for united country,” Our Readers’ Views, Aug. 12), I am reminded by earlier letters to the editor this past week following the primary results for our 3rd District congressional race: We simply are not sharing the same information base.

As an example, the letter speculating that Democrats subverted the election by voting for Joe Kent for Congress was a deliberate lie. The proof of that lie was suddenly scrubbed in the last two days from the LifePac.org website, which stated only a week ago that the desired outcome of the primary was Joe Kent vs. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez.

Far-right claimants, such as the most recent histrionic speculations in letters to the editor to The Columbian, follow the same campaign of manipulation as what was written over a century ago by the philosopher Schopenhauer.

Almost half of those amoral proposals by Schopenhauer are being used by our own local histrionic far-right apologists. The philosopher meant it as a joke. But those who want to subvert civility, equality, and rule of law use it to their advantage. Perhaps these folks are uneducated in civics and civility, perhaps they have traumas in their past that they haven’t been able to resolve. But they do not deserve our support; only our sympathy.

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