The Democratic Party is on a meltdown mode by embracing absurd policies like the Green New Deal and lowering the voting age to 16 years old. The GND would have a negative impact on our economy, employment and energy independence at an enormous cost of more than $93 trillion over a ten-year period.

Some of our Democratic presidential candidates now want to trash our sacred U.S. Constitution by eliminating the Electoral College and stacking the Supreme Court from nine to 11 justices. The Dems want the popular vote to replace the Electoral College in electing the president.

The Founding Fathers adopted the Electoral College to protect the smaller states from being disenfranchised in presidential elections.

The Democrats need to establish a strong political agenda by 2020 if they want to compete with Republicans. It will be a tall task, especially with our booming economy, low unemployment for all Americans and higher wages for our lower and middle income workers.

Robert Hatakeyama

Salt Lake

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