To the Editor:
Does Mr. Warden understand what it means to be less divisive? His column on that topic raises doubts. While flying the flag of offended sincerity and fair journalism he goes out of his way to attack our President for using the term “semi-fascism” as applied to the MAGA movement of Donald Trump. Curiously, it’s not the “fascism” he objects to but the qualifier “semi.” It’s as though Mr. Warden has so attuned himself to viewing the world from the distant partisan right that he can no longer recognize anything in the middle ground shades of reality. Black or white, red or blue is all the pallette Mr. Warden needs to color his world view and that’s a shame because we need people in influential positions, such as he, to lead us out of our politicized trenches and toward some middle ground of reasonable open-mindedness. Mr. Warden also seems oblivious to the waves of self-serving misinformation that are flooding the nation aimed primarily at, and promoted by, the political right. The Big Lie that Trump won our last presidential election compounded by the denial of complicity in the January 6th insurrection leap immediately to mind as well as the postured outrage at Mar A Lago when top secret documents were reclaimed by the Justice Department. When such all-too-obvious facts are pointed out by broadcasters and pundits Dennis yelps “bias” as though it’s impossible to make a statement on politics without doctoring the truth. Regrettably, it seems he might simply be judging others by his own standard of reflexive combativeness.
Gasconade County Democrat Committee, gasconadedems.org
