As you listen to any candidate from the Democratic Party in either a speech or in a written article, there are words and phrases you will never find simply because they do not believe in them. They are as follows: freedom, independence, self-reliance, individual rights, property rights, hard work, accountability, illegal aliens (not “undocumented workers”) radical Islamic jihadists and in God we trust.

Think seriously about this before you cast your vote in any election. This county’s future depends on you, and without the practical application of the above words and phrases, we will no longer recognize America as we have know it for 240 years.

Mike Mauldin
Gainesville

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