I count myself among the hundreds of thousands, or perhaps millions, of breadwinners, including my father and his many D-Day Veterans, who spent two to three hours commuting to Manhattan five days a week, so that we could raise our families in Connecticut.<\/p>\n
Some entitled Aspen voter gimme-more is calling me a d-bag for sharing this heartfelt and hard-won experience with our community. I object to this jerk\u2019s criticism and I wish to turn the tables against similar ingrates.<\/p>\n
Now that Mayor Steve Skadron\u2019s burnt toast, praise be to God for that, let\u2019s demand our new Aspen leaders to start dealing with these entitled losers as losers. And let\u2019s treat our champions as champions. We citizens must demand that our leaders stop pandering to the thumb-sucking crowd who complain about their rent and who don\u2019t have the stomach to earn a hard dollar, to pay taxes on their hard earned dollar, and to commute.<\/p>\n
Millions of us have done it before the lazy people took over Aspen\u2019s electorate. Maybe if our leaders can persuade Aspen voters to stop drinking beer and smoking pot, we might actually bring about positive change. And maybe use our D-Day forefathers, who were of course almost all youngsters, who either died or defied death in their defence of liberty, as our role models.<\/p>\n
So I ask, have you won an athletic national championship, like I and many more like me have won? Have you heard the chant of \u201cUSA, USA\u201d in the final minutes of winning a gold medal?<\/p>\n
Earn an honors degree from Harvard, like I and many more like me did. Then, meet me in front of the fountain in Aspen with a reporter recording your discord and see how you show up on TV. I dare you. And I assure you, you\u2019ll be humiliated.<\/p>\n
To put it plainly, you\u2019ll get smoked. And just for a test-prep, I\u2019d suggest, what can you say about Shakespeare\u2019s influence in current English literature, like the Harry Potter series? Or how can you expound on Beethoven\u2019s use of the Circle of Fifths in the Beatles top hits? My bottom line is this \u2013 never doubt the intelligence of an educated conservative.<\/p>\n
John Hornblower<\/p>\n
Snowmass Village<\/p>\n