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To the Editor:

I read Ms. Aronson’s op-ed (We-Ha.com, Sept. 20, 2024) and I was initially drawn in by the crafty and coded language that she used. By the end of her piece, I knew exactly what she was talking about, and I felt compelled to respond. Very few people come out in this town and express the alternative point of view, aka the conservative side. They are afraid of losing their associations, their incomes, and their friendships.

I’m writing this to encourage my fellow brothers and sisters to “come out” and be heard.  I am no longer afraid. The town Republican Party should be writing this editorial,  not me. Nonetheless, I will fill the void here.

Ms. Aronson talks in this typical West-Hartford-speak that I hear on a regular basis. People talk to me like I am one of them and everybody agrees. There is only one point of view. This idea of a uni-party is real, to borrow a term regularly used by WH town councilor Mary Fay. I don’t agree with the prevailing political majority in this town. Aronson alludes to people who have left the party and spoken out (meaning Republicans). However, there have also been prominent Democrats that have come out in support of our former president – including Tulsi Gabbard and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.  She presents this idea of all coming together as one to fix something. What she really wants is for her political opponents to submit to one party, Democrats forever. Ms. Aronson, I will not comply!

The Republican party is not the party that it was 20 years ago. We are no longer guided by Bush-ite globalism, Big wars, and pushing corporate interests at all costs. I am delighted about this change. Why do you think the Teamsters union declined to endorse a presidential candidate? Nearly 60% of their members support our former president in a recent poll.

I’m not going to talk in coded language here. This November I’m going to boldly vote for the same candidate for the third time for president. I don’t have to think he has the best personality or is some type of “pastor in chief” to be my president. One candidate running for president supports child sex change operations, eliminating free speech or what her side calls “disinformation” (merely speech that they disagree with), and believes in vaccine mandates. I am not voting for that candidate. In my eyes, such a candidate is the biggest threat to democracy I’ve ever seen in my lifetime.

There is no need to fix the flag, we need to respect it and revel in its glory. Solutions first and party last should be the way. Ms. Aronson, would you even go out for coffee with me if I wore my red hat?

Kevin Boudreau
Small Business Owner
West Hartford