Cleaning up the progressive Left’s false narratives

THE EDITOR, Madam:

“Forgive me, I’m a liar and I got caught” that’s what a great number of followers of the modern, progressive left should be saying after what we’ve seen this past four years in the US. But they won’t. Most will simply wait until the rest of us acquiesce to forgetting or excusing their deceit. Well, I’m sorry but that’s not enough.

Forgive me for not saying so before but I, and a lot of others, am not going to forget what these folks have done. I’m the kind of person that just can’t excuse liars, not then, not now, not ever. If my own life ends up as a failure, it will not be because I was dishonest. I was taught to own up to my mistakes, not to hide them.

From the halls of the US Congress to the horde of legacy-news outlets, both at home and abroad, there are all too many individuals today who are guilty without question of telling what have been long since proven to be deliberate or incompetence-driven lies. What should be done with them?

Trump’s new administration may well bring the hammer down on the ills the past administration has foisted upon the world, even poor little, gullible Jamaica, but that will not satisfy those of us who have had to suffer from trying to live a moral life and being forced to suffer these liars’ deceits.

Ask yourself how is it that a former president of the United States, a supposed example of virtue, who has instead been shown to be a world-class criminal, a fraud, can sell out his own country just to cement a legacy and establish the status he and his family thought they deserved – and then legally excuse himself and the rest for having done so?

The only just reward I see for these folks is to shame them and never again let them “serve themselves” by pretending to “serve us” in any way, shape or form. Seeing this letter printed in The Gleaner is a good start for Jamaica.

ED MCCOY

Bokeelia, Florida