Greenwood County Democratic Party

The Greenwood County Republican Party submitted a rather meanspirited and factually incorrect opinion piece in the Index Journal in July. We did not stay silent and responded with the following, which was published on July 20, 2025.

We read with interest the article in the Index Journal on 7/6/25 regarding America’s founders and conservative values.

It implied that all positive values are conservative in nature and that all negative values are liberal in nature. They state that liberal values (“the left’s agenda”) are tearing down traditional principles and are “tyranny with a smiling face.” Furthermore, they trot out the tired and inaccurate tropes about the left pushing gender confusion and replacing family values with government programs.

Well, we think instead that they are confused and challenge their assertions.

• There is no gender pushing, only recognition the right of individuals to live free of government tyranny.
  
• Armed, masked agents of the government snatching people off of the street, without due process, is the classic definition of tyranny.
  
• Separating families, including mothers and children, and placing them in cages is not the American way. It smacks of World War II tactics and its dreaded tyranny.
  
• Removing female autonomy from women’s health care decisions is the same governmental interference that they argue against. “None of your business” should apply here.

We’re familiar with the tale of the frog in the pot failing to recognize the gradual increase in the water temperature until it’s too late and he’s boiling. If only he was aware and could take evasive action….My question is simple, when did we become frogs?

Wake up

This administration’s blatant lawlessness, grift, racism and contempt for justice is on full display every day. We watch people randomly rounded up, detained, abducted and deported — without evidence, without due process and without legal representation. Now they are arresting judges and elected officials acting in their official capacity and contemplating targeting and deporting US citizens. Wake up. It’s time to stand and say no.

We’re watching supply chains return to the bare shelves, hoarding and price gouging days of COVID. Our neighbors lose jobs, face reduced hours and see their earnings plummet while costs soar. The republicans promised cheaper eggs and a booming economy and now say it’s our patriotic duty to suffer through this “short term pain” of untold duration. Wake up, their economic agenda is a massive failure and we’re footing the bill.

They are writing plans and budget resolutions that will abruptly reduce medicaid and access to healthcare for millions of Americans in order to secure tax breaks for the wealthy. Drastic unfocused cuts across all aspects of the government has yielded very little in savings and unleashed chaos in our lives. Wake up, we know this is a recipe for disaster.

They evict POCs here legally, legitimately, seeking asylum and deport Afghan refugees that partnered with and helped us during that war; as they welcome and support remnants of apartheid from South Africa. You don’t have to be a subject area expert to know none of this passes the sniff test.