To the editor:

I had to respond to Mr. Dyment’s letter from last Wednesday.

I read the letter three times to try and figure out what the point was and am still somewhat stumped.

I did get the idea that Mr. Dyment is very, very afraid for the future of democracy, I am too.

However, he seems to think that Fox News doing a story on ACORN employees that took the bait from Fox News employees to set up a prostitution business is the beginning of the end for America. He seems to think that “voter fraud” of the kind that ACORN could perpetrate could even begin to compete with the kind of “election fraud” we witnessed in America in the year 2000 when Bush was appointed by the Supreme Court.

America, between 2000 to 2004, saw the most aggressive campaign to disenfranchise voters in our nation’s history. This was critical to ensure that the election was close enough in 2004 that the machine of “election fraud” would work again. It did, and we were treated to another term of Constitution shredding by a criminal cabal.

There is a criminal, anti-democracy cabal working out there, Mr. Dyment. It’s just that, much to our detriment, they are much more effective than the amateurs at ACORN that had Donald Duck casting a vote.

You are right about one thing, though: It does take more than four years to turn a country into an enemy of thinking people. How you think Obama has done it in just nine months will be of real interest to the Republicans.

I did like the joke about turning “into a Venezuela from a republic/free enterprise, free thinking prosperous country” but I had to wonder, after looking around at my own country, what country were you referring to?

One other thing you were right about, it is “a fight for survival” but what that survival looks like should depend on a majority of the people and not a few businessmen, because a country run on the “for-profit model” is called a fascist country.

I hope for the sake of our country that the damage done by the last Republican president is reversible.

Dan Freeman

Clinton