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Estimado Sr. Lincoln

Estimado Sr. Lincoln, Su partido político, el ahora llamado Grand Old Party, el que se fundó para oponerse a la expansión de la esclavitud y a la Ley Kansas-Nebraska de 1854, sería irreconocible para usted hoy si regresara de ultratumba. Ya no es el partido que se inclinaba por ideales liberales como la búsqueda de la felicidad y el principio de que todos los hombres y mujeres somos creados iguales. El Partido Republicano, Sr. Lincoln,…
Pedro Chavez
September 24, 2022
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Dear Mr. Lincoln

Dear Mr. Lincoln, Your political party, the now called Grand Old Party, the one founded to oppose the spreading of slavery and the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act, would be unrecognizable to you today if you were to return from the grave. It is no longer the party bent on such liberal ideal as the pursuit of happiness and the principle that all men and women are created equal. The GOP, Mr. Lincoln, has done a one-eighty…
Pedro Chavez
September 24, 2022
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About Hypocrites and Loose Talk

It’s getting crazy out there in the presidential campaign trail. Then again, it always gets crazy. It happens every four years. You hear a lot of gobbledygook. Candidates talk about this and that and about how they’re different from the others bidding for the keys to the White House. Some call themselves outsiders, non-politicians. Yeah, right. And another thing, they also flaunt their empty promises and vow to change government for the better. “Yeah, that’s…
Pedro Chavez
October 16, 2015