Reader's View: Democrats as dictators is hardly democratic The left is like a train doing away with the restrictions of the tracks, celebrating, albeit short-lived, what most people call — a train wreck! Written By: Warner Gouin, Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota | 9:00 am, Apr. 19, 2021 × Founders trusted Americans to bear the inconvenience of opposite and rival interests, as an “invention of prudence,” to ferret out truth and consequences. But lacking that character and fortitude, the perverted mash-up of ill-will within the Democratic Party spends its time claiming such honesty is too divisive, racist, or whatever. Tennessee Congressman Mark Green, a physician and combat veteran serving on the House Armed Services and Foreign Affairs committees, explained in his April 13 Townhall commentary, “While America Slept: The Story of a Distracted Military and a Rising China,” how the administration of President Joe Biden is putting America at risk — by “redirecting precious time and resources to appease the woke mob. … The left today may be ‘woke’, but they sure aren’t awake.”