To the editor:

The Democratic Convention is a marketing miracle! Here is a sample of the rhetoric:

– Trump is going to kill democracy. (He was president for four years and didn’t kill Democracy??)

– Speakers are calling this country chaotic right now and they blame Trump. Trump has been out of office for almost four years and the country is chaotic???

– The Democrats are going to provide a fair wage for everyone. Socialism is the answer. Pay more taxes or just add more debt?? We are already spending 9.5% more than last year and budgeted over $1.5 trillion more debt. A fair wage bill would add $1-2 trillion more taxes or debt.

– The Democrats are going to solve inflation with federal price controls. Around the world this has been tried and never worked.

– They are going to control the border (They set a record for illegal immigration the last four years with Kamala.)

– Going to provide reproductive freedom for every state. (States would no longer be able to choose pro-life.) Allowing the killing the unborn right up to birth is a Democratic campaign theme. How sad.

– Kamala had to work for what she got. Kamala got her jump on politics by having an affair with then still-married Willie Brown, speaker of the House Assembly in California.

– Joe Biden was an outstanding president who defended democracy at a moment of great danger. Hardly, considering the Afghan debacle costing 13 service personnel, thousands of American friends and $80 billion of American weapons left behind. Biden/Kamala also took away the sanction on Iran so they could finance Hamas, Hezbollah and even the Houthis.

– Walz is salt of the earth and genuine. He has driven Minnesota into a tax and spend quagmire (MN budget is 20% higher); taxes and spending are increased in almost every category; has passed abortion bills; took away some freedom of pregnancy centers; made it legal for minors to have transgender “healthcare.”

– The Democrats will harness the power of government (after four years will harness? What did they do the last four years?); stress housing affordability (under Biden/Kamala we have the worst housing situation ever); health rights (under Biden/Kamala our health system is 50% more expensive than the second-highest country while we are 26th in longevity; labor rights (under Biden/Kamala wages have gone down 2.4%).

– Bring the country together. The last four years of Biden/Kamala administration and the convention has caused more separation

During the convention, a speech said that this country is hopeless if Trump is elected. With four years of Biden/Kamala the country is hopeless?

Trump’s negative remarks about Kamala are terrible. The Democrats have called Trump Hitler, anti-democratic and even say that he will kill our democracy. Every speaker said negative things about Trump. But Trump must not say anything bad about Kamala??

The Democrats have been in charge for four years and the country is in terrible shape because of Trump??? But the same people who led the country the last four years are going to make it all better?? Some people will say anything for power.

John Benedict

Cape Coral