Letter: I encourage you to read between the lines

<p><strong>Letter to Editor:</strong></p><p>Woah to America. Cancel culture is coming. Democrats want to turn us into Venezuela.</p><p>Or so the GOP would have you believe.</p><p>The new Johnson County Democratic Party is here to say nonsense.</p><p>The facts are clear: The modern Republican Party is the party of Soviet-style socialism. So called cancel culture is nothing more than the free market picking winners and losers. In 2016 and 2020, the Democratic presidential candidates won the vote in counties that account for 70% of all economic activity in this country. Since 1988, the Republican candidate for president has won the most votes nationally exactly once.</p><p>Any business will look at these facts and come to one conclusion: Democratic counties represent the future of America.</p><p>That is not socialism, that’s capitalism.</p><p>As Democrats, we do not lament our being forced to support the so-called “red states and red counties.” We recognize that we have a duty to support all of our country, not just the “blue” areas.</p><p>The Republicans, on the other hand, are fighting against the free market to preserve their power and screaming cancel culture to distract you from the thriving economies in the “opposition” controlled areas. That is the approach of a Republican party without ideas for a better future.</p><p><p><strong>William (Bill) Saillant</strong></p><p><p><strong>Vice chair, Johnson County Democratic Party</strong></p>