Letters: Leftward to one party?

Published: Friday, Jan. 4 2013 12:00 a.m. MST

If reflecting Republicans are scrambling to change party policy planks and vote baiting promises to appeal to liberal-leaning voters, will we need two major parties — both of which will be moderately socialistic?

Why not save billions by jettisoning the party contests, and form one big united national party: the Dumicreblican Party?

Byron Gibbs

Salt Lake City

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Emajor

Ogden, UT

Mr. Gibbs,
In all of your Tea Party fervor, it may surprise to know that the polarization of our parties has been fairly recent. They used to work together and show some level of mutual respect. For all of the adulation given Ronald Reagan, we More..

9:25 a.m. Jan. 4, 2013
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LDS Liberal

Farmington, UT

Why not?

Seeing that those unwilling to compromise are signing letters to secede from the Union anyway?

Try Northern Idaho, around Hayden Lake.
I hear the Aryan Nation for extreme right-wingers already exists there.

10:22 a.m. Jan. 4, 2013
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Christian 24-7

Murray, UT

Yes yes yes, liberals want compromise, but only when the right steps left. We have been compromising, actually sacrificing, our values to the democrats for decades. Look at the government spending as a percent of GDP. Government is getting bigger, More..

11:15 a.m. Jan. 4, 2013
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