LETTER: COVID was an awaking that caused many to shift their political allegiance

Published 8:33 am Wednesday, November 13, 2024

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LETTER: With the presidential election behind us, we can all be grateful it’s “time for change.” Whether you embrace the events or believe it’s the apocalypse, the truth is things are going to change. And thank God for that.

Being a life-long Democrat who was converted during COVID, I admit there was a tear shed on election night, because of my love for this country and for being awake to the cancer currently metastasizing in our society.

The big lie called COVID was the last straw for me to see what happened to the political party I once loved when JFK and RFK were anointed rebels.

What our government did to families, businesses and society, was enough for me to say, “That’s enough. This isn’t right.”

Now I see the division and deceit of the crimes against humanity exacerbated by COVID. I see the ugliness and glorification of gender and race division, mutilating lost children, child-trafficking and the mainstream media constantly lying to us, while implementing tools of fear to control us.

We all must look in the mirror and ask ourselves honestly what these factors mean to each of us. We must face the truth about the evils in our country that have been covered up by deranged illusion, of a man most people are willing to take a chance with, if not truly believe in.

Ken Hopstad

Milwaukie