Don's Tuesday Column

        THE WAY I SEE IT   by Don Polson   Red Bluff Daily News   3/05/2024

Views on today’s, November’s elections

My views on the supervisor contest: To tell you that, I’ll tell you this, as they say. Through no fault of our own, we cannot vote in the March 5 primary. We routinely have mail forwarded north for ski season.

For good reasons, election ballots are not forwarded, which discourages fraud. Too late for us, we found out that if we had changed our address with the elections department, ballots would have been sent to our Oregon address. For November elections, we’re always back in Red Bluff, after summer travels.

However, we live in District 3, which I found has no contest. Our seer-of-all-local-things, Ms. Merry, “The Merry Mantonian,” has voluminous information; also, actionnewsnow.com carried “Meet the candidates running for 3 open seats for Tehama County Supervisor” (Feb. 12).

I can only offer personal input, however irrelevant it might be. While having nothing discouraging to say about her opponent, I have to share my experience with Ms. Kris Deiters from back in my real estate days, covering nearly 16 years in several offices and brokerages. Kris is fondly remembered as an accomplished title officer whose expertise must be acknowledged.

While admittedly being out of touch for years, and having little input on her handling of Tehama County’s issues, I would happily support Ms. Deiters were I living in District 1 for no reason other than my experience with her title officer conduct, which was exemplary.

Regarding District 2, I recall Ms. Candy Carlson showing up at our local Tea Party meetings for Q and As, which struck me as indicative of a publicly-minded citizen of our county, who saw a group of sincere patriots as having something worthwhile to say. And she listened. I am likewise a bit out-of-touch with her duties as a supervisor, and cannot gainsay her two opponents, but I would probably support her if I lived in District 2.

Regarding District 5, I have nothing to say; I encourage voters to self-inform.

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Permission was granted to contribute some Donald Trump-oriented comments to supplement the pieces from Republican candidate Nikki Haley and Democrat Ro Khanna in Friday’s Opinion section.

Ms. Haley’s concern, for “where we’re (America) headed” as we approach the 250^th anniversary of our founding, is commendable if not perfunctory. Her analysis of the state of our nation after 3 years of President Joe Biden’s policies is spot on. If you missed it, do access her column; it itemizes the irrefutable conclusions of failed, misguided and devastating conditions imposed upon our nation.

As for Ms. Khanna’s anti-Trump diatribe, she starts by asserting, absent proof, that “a Trump presidency will mean less diplomacy and more violence in the Middle East.” The facts that are that 1) no violence or wars were initiated during Trump’s term; and 2) the Abraham Accords established unprecedented diplomatic recognition, by several Middle East Arab Muslim nations, of Israel as a nation with which they no longer had animosity or military aggression.

Such illusory, disingenuous attacks represent such an aberration of, and departure from, the truth as to disqualify her entire case against Trump, as well as her glowing praise for Biden’s non-accomplishments.

Americans can see with “their own lying eyes” an open border allowing daily entry of thousands of unvetted, unexamined “illegal aliens” (per Federal Code). They are subsequently transported to distant locales, given housing, food, medical care and cash—as well as court dates for asylum hearings so far in the future as to be de facto legalization for residence, work and, eventually, voting and citizenship, likely in that order.

America’s Southern border was, under President Trump, the most secure, with the least illegal entries, in many decades. But for Democrat legal warfare against it, Trump’s virtually impenetrable wall would’ve been completed and stand forever as a bulwark against our current invasion of foreign migrants, many of whom now disrespect our nation’s laws against violence aimed women, children and officers.

Americans’ incomes exceeded inflation under Trump; real economic growth was not spurred by bloated government spending—ironically counted toward productivity when it is decidedly counterproductive to growth. Nations that now view America as a weak target to be pushed around were, under Trump, intimidated into respect and cooperation.

Finally, Ms. Haley asserted that Trump is unelectable, based on her apparent animosity toward, and skepticism of, Donald Trump. However, the polling since September—and the current New York Times/Sienna poll—indicate a nearly indisputable win by Trump over Biden.

Trump vs. Biden approval: 44 to 38 percent. Registered voters choose Trump over Biden, 48 to 43 percent. Hispanics choose Trump over Biden, 46 to 40 percent. Whereas Biden (and previous Democrats) received 90+ percent support from Black voters, he only gets 66 percent to Trump’s 23 percent support.

Of Biden’s 2020 voters, only 83 percent support him, while 10 percent now support Trump; Trump gets 97 percent of his 2020 voters while practically none will vote for Biden. Unelectable? The polling shows Trump a sure thing; Biden is apparently unelectable.