Dear Editor:
Informed voting and the Montana Senate race
The Founders warned of the necessity of an informed electorate – fact-based voting. Today, that requires understanding how candidates (and the media) view truth.
To the average Montanan, truth means the facts or what really happened. But, in our Postmodern–Post-Truthculture, truth is a product of our emotion-based opinion that tends to service our agenda. Facts don’t enter the equation.
It’s not mud-slinging to say this is where most Progressive Democrats land; it’s their worldview – their perception of reality. As difficult as it is to wrap your brain around that idea, it is where much of academia lives and is predominant in Progressive’s perception of reality.
Fast forward to a couple of pictures from the Montana Senate race:
Tester poses as a Blue-Dog Democrat. But who holds the leash on “moderate Jon”? Planned Parenthood endorsed him, he voted in lock step with Schumer 90 percent of the time, opposed tax cuts, and increased our insurance premiums by fighting for ObamaCare, then blamed insurance hikes on Rosendale. Jon opposed Justice Gorsuch and will likely vote against Kavanaugh’s appointment. He is weak on border security and is for sanctuary cities. He even voted against the elimination of the death/estate tax – ask your farmer friends what they think of that! On these issues, Tester and Rosendale are opposites. Jon is the poster child of the Post-Truth worldview!
Then there’s is the media, always picturing Jon in his tractor, just common Montana Jon. Interestingly, their photographers missed that picture of Matt Rosendale working with his neighbors to repair fences damaged by the prairie fire last summer. Darn, no picture of Matt hauling sugar beets either. The Post-Truth media ignoring reality again.
You decide — which understanding of truth do YOU want in the Senate?
Richard Pence
Billings
