Editor,
Daily Journal Editor-in-Chief Jon Mays, who apparently believes in Trump’s political propaganda, is completely wrong when he says that Democrats are the party of the elite, in his opinion column on March 28. The definition of elite is: select, most carefully selected part of a group, as a society. The Democrats are not that, by any means.
Since when does fact-checking and debunking Trump’s lies, conspiracy theories and exaggerations, with facts, evidence, proof and the truth, make Democrats the party of the elite? Since when does believing in the rule of law and the upholding of the U.S. Constitution, make Democrats the party of the elite?
During Trump’s first term, he repeatedly used the term “fake news” and his staff used “alternate facts,” in response to every time Trump was caught red-handed lying, cheating or breaking the law. This is typical criminal behavior that Trump is good at, to try to accuse the accusers and opponents that they are the bad ones, not him. It unfortunately works on some people, but, not on most people. The term elite to describe Democrats is just another con job by Trump. Don’t believe it.
Michael Oberg
San Mateo
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Sorry, Mr. Obert, but when so-called fact checkers controlled by Dems base their version of “facts” on fake news and lies, they’re not credible. To wit, how many fact checkers fell for the fake Russian collusion narrative? How many fell for the Charlottesville hoax? How many fell for the so-called insurrection that wasn’t? Attempting to blame Trump for Nancy Pelosi’s dereliction of duty? As for believing in rule of law and upholding the Constitution, how do you explain allowing untold millions of invaders to our country? Sorry, but I have many more reasons to believe Mr. Mays than to believe Mr. Oberg. BTW, where is your evidence?
Nothing wrong with "alternate facts," which simply means 'other facts." only an elitist nit picker would find fault.
The way Trump uses alternate facts is called lying, making up stuff with no evidence, and denying the truth. You know it and so does everyone else.
I'm not sure a dummy like Trump even knows what the truth is, nor does he care.
The term man, the term.
At least San Mateo Democrats are the party of the elite. They certainly don't support the working class anymore:
- San Mateo Democrats took away bike lanes from a working class neighborhood
- The Board of Supervisors took away a Caltrain crossing in North Fair Oaks
- SamTrans Democrats took money that should have been invested into customer service and used it for self-pleasuring (2nd headquarter)
- Caltrain is the "Tech-Bro-Train" and way too expensive. That is because its ridership is constantly under attack by car-centric project after car-centric project
- San Mateo Democrats are segregating several school districts on purpose (San Mateo/Foster City and Redwood City)
- San Mateo Democrats pay teachers in this county below California average, but have the nicest facilities, the nicest parking lots, the nicest downtown offices, etc. What they don't do is teaching - students are falling behind.
By all these measures and many, many more did San Mateo Democrats increase income inequality bit by bit.
There is a simple litmus tests if San Mateo Democrats are elitists:
Q: is there a clear priority to support Public Transportation?
A: No, the money is constantly re-routed into car-centric projects (grade separation)
Q: is there a clear priority to support Active Transportation?
A: No, the money is constantly re-routed into car-centric projects (traffic calming)
Q: is the working class better paid than the administrators?
A: Nobody needs school districts, it's a completely artificial construct to take money away from education and reroute it towards friends and family of the superintendent. There is corruption and problems in almost every school district in the area (Mountain View, Las Lomitas, RCSD, SMCCD, SUSHD)
Boy, you sure have a lot of issues to complain about. If you knew what your are talking about and done the research, you would know the reasons the things you listed happened.
1) Bike lanes in North San Mateo were removed because the neighborhood is low income/working class and the residents need the on street parking spaces, not bike lanes. Multiple family members all live in one house and have multiple cars that need to be parked on the street. You would know this if you bothered to check it out.
2) SamTrans/CalTrain is moving to a new headquarters building in Millbrae because the old headquarters building in San Carlos was built to the 1970 seismic standards and needs expensive rebuilding. It is less expensive to lease a new building for their headquarters. (Again, you never did any research on this.)
3) The Caltrain bike and pedestrian crossing of the electrified Cal-Train tracks was cancelled due to the high cost and technical difficulties because of the electric wires and poles along the railroad right of way. (How come you don't know this?)
Lastly, in California, most people drive their automobiles to every where for every thing. This has been known since the 1970's. Yes, there is public transportation in San Mateo County, but, it only is used by a small percentage of the people. You can't force people to take public transit. (Why don't you know this?)
Mike, you might be too trustworthy. Just follow the money.
1) North Central has fewer cars per household than most others. The neighborhood also has an abundance of private parking (2-4 spots per house). And San Mateo city and county plans clearly state that this neighborhood needs bike lanes more so than others. It's called "affordable transportation". The real reason Rob Newsom and Lisa Diaz Nash are taking away bike lanes from this neighborhood is the fact that they have tons of empty parking garage spaces in downtown. Bikes don't need garage space.
2) The old SamTrans building was just fine, that is why they are keeping both. San Mateo's office building occupation rate looks really bad right now, that is why politicians use public funds to buy buildings they really don't need, but gives them an excuse to approve more office buildings.
3) Each and every highway widening, intersection improvement project and grade separation project is a direct attack on Caltrain ridership. You of course can vote for this mismanagement when they ask you to cover the "widening Fiscal Cliff".
Why bike lanes? It's not the chicken or the egg discussion. The answer is always 'the egg'.
If you want people to play golf, you build golf courts. If you want people to play tennis, you build tennis. If you want people to swim, you need to offer access to pools.
... and if you want people to ride their bicycles more - as San Mateo Democrats keep pretending - you build bike lanes.
The reason they do not is simply because there is more money coming to the campaign coffers from infrastructure companies and unions whenever car-centric projects are involved. It's a pyramid scheme leading to more and more congestion, which allows them to throw more good money at bad projects.
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