An Alternative Reality - Unpublished Letter To The Editor Miami Herald

   America, like Nazi Germany and the novel 1984. is living with an alternative reality for half of its voting population. Science and politics for them are whatever they say they are and  they are using every possible means to be in a position of power to impose their agenda on the other half in every aspect of society. This is not the first time in history that this has happened but it is happening here and now to us and it is an existential threat to our democracy and our way of life.  In our nation with our form of government the only way to defeat the forces working to re-empower a dystopian autocracy is to elect officials with centrist views who will reverse self serving laws and statutes and follow rational rather than objectively misguided principles and decisions. To not do this and to allow the dissenters to prevail will mark the end of our 245 year civic democratic experiment and put many of our minorities and less fortunate citizens in grave danger. We are already seeing this where radical views have been kindled leading to acting out against Congress and minorities.  We must be fully aware of the consequences of accepting fiction as truth and entertainment as legitimate news. But the right will not change. They will not give up their tribalism, their core views and values. We can only contain them by political success. Voter and civic apathy will only guarantee that they will prevail. Only if everyone who understands this is moved to act, to speak out, to support democratic politics financially and with time,  to pursue civic engagement  and to vote can we save our nation as a functioning democracy and not a right wing autocracy.