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Catherine Alloway
Port Matilda
Trump's historically unpopular running mate, J.D. Vance, is offering storytime sessions! Not for preschoolers, but for adults. Vance has blatantly stated that creating "stories," is an acceptable way to focus media attention on a problem. Alas, his storytimes are all fiction, including problems that don't even exist! These are not your typical tales with happy endings.
Vance and Trump have spread gross falsehoods about the legal immigrants living, working and contributing to Springfield, Ohio. Immigrants and non-immigrants alike have had to endure the costly fallout, both emotionally and financially, from those lies. More than 50 bomb threats have forced schools, hospitals, universities and community centers to close.
The Trump-Vance lies are classic white nationalist propaganda. The Proud Boys and other KKK-affiliated groups have marched through Springfield distributing hate-filled fliers, ratcheting up the tensions. Trump and Vance aren't focusing attention on a problem, they're creating a problem -- for political gain. They don't care who gets hurt in the process. Worse yet, Trump has promised mass deportation of Springfield's legal, contributing and respected immigrant community members.
Do we really want to hear these stories? Do you believe these fictions? Do we want Donald Trump and JD Vance leading our country? It's a very unhappy ending for all of us, when we accept lies as truth,and jeopardize our country's decency and democracy.