WNY is no place for hate

Elma had the misfortune to be the host of alt-right (and always wrong) fearmonger Loose Cannon Steve Bannon.

For the record: alt-right is politically correct speak for neo-nazi, racist, and any other fear living epithet that you can think of.  There is no love in these people.  They live in a fantastic, fictional, and romanticized past that never was and never will be.  They are on the wrong side of history with their lies and distorted views.

He spoke at the Elma Fire Hall, as per his First Amendment Rignts.  Even if what he says is factually challenged and has no basis in reality.

Please don't get me started about how Wall Street is not the economy, how the 1% can not save us, and how caucasians are equal to every other race on this planet.  And for what it is worth, and no one can seem to answer this question, when did America stop being great? 
Alone we are nothing. When we work as a team of equals, we succeed beyond our wildest dreams.

Smart Republican politicians were wise to stay away from the event. Carl PaladiNo was there. (Someone should remind him of all the tax breaks his company has been given over the years. He is far from a self made man. By the way - we're still waiting for the promised jobs. I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for him to deliver. Jesus will return first. Or Mohammed. Or the Messiah will come. Or...)

Bannon has his roots in the post Vietnam Era where the USA lost a war it never should have fought. 58,000 died in theatre & many more  died from Agent Orange poisoning, drug addiction, alcoholism, suicide, & other unnatural causes.  Then there are the 1+ million Vietnamese people that died and still suffer to this day from their War of Independence.  He saw the disaster of the attempt to rescue the American Embassy personnel.  If The United States  government would have respected democracy in Iran & Vietnam, these disasters would never have take  place.  (Sad to say,  America speaks about democracy, it does not support any ones' right to it.)  He is not wise enough to see this and holds the anger of a misguided foreign policy in his head and the fear of losing in his heart.  He also fails to see how corporate capitalism  is destroying this country.  This drives him to live the fear in his life every day.

We do not need this fear in WNY.

We are a proud multi- cultural society that is learning  (or trying to) from the past and moving on to a bigger,  better, and brighter future.  We recognize that immigrants bring new life to this  country. We recognize differences in people as strengths. We value the lives of all and see that when one is denied their rights,  it hurts all of us.

He can spout what he wants. We need to see it for what it is: Fear.

And fear can  ever give life.
It only takes it away.

Bannon isn't here to save our country.  He is here to destroy it from  within.
As a history major in college,  I know that the end of a country always begins from within.
And we had the poison that will destroy US in in WNY.