Regarding the article, “Need for new direction” (Star-Advertiser, Sept. 22): The Hawaiian islands are a paradise. A paradise captured by politics. “Progressive” politics. A single-party state. A bureaucracy. Corrupt. Self-perpetuating. With its only newspaper and all of its local broadcasting outlets in agenda-conforming harmony.

Of course the state is going in the wrong direction. That is where it is being led. Let’s start with the truth. Of course this is futile: Modern liberals, especially the political, are incapable of objective self-reflection.

Scott G. Gier

Ewa Beach

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