Trump re-election: Letters to the editor, March 30, 2019

What re-electing Trump would mean

Victor Hansen’s recent op-ed (The Bee, March 24) says that the 2020 election is Trump’s to win or lose. Actually, it is the American people’s to win or lose.

Trump is a pathological liar, a braggart, a racist, a narcissist, a pettily vindictive, hateful man. If we re-elect Trump, are we any better than him?

If we re-elect Trump, we have discarded our values, our sense of common decency, or belief that the president is someone to look up to, to set an example for our children. Greed, hatred, and fear would carry the day in an America no longer worthy of respect or emulation.

The re-election of Trump would be the darkest day in modern American politics. Once we betray who we aspire to be as a people — honest, decent, value-oriented, compassionate, courageous — what is left to define ourselves? Money? Stock options? Three thousand-square-foot homes?

The person whom we elect as president tells us volumes about who we Americans really are. Any president can keep an already humming economy going. Not any president has the decency, moral values, and compassion to represent our great country in a way that all Americans can be proud of. And certainly not Donald Trump.

Liberals and their use of Twitter

I see that (Andrew) Janz wants to fight (Devin) Nunes his lawsuit against twitter. Janz wants to stop Nunes’ lawsuit because he does not want you to know the truth. If Janz wins his suit against Nunes, he will be a big person for Twitter.

Twitter has cut off many converts because they did not like what they said. Twitter does not want you know the truth.

How many liberals has Twitter cut off? None! Remember this, the truth will set you free. That why liberals want keep truth away from the people.

Liberals keep saying about Trump, Russia, Russia. In all the years that I have been alive, I have never seen anyone go after a president like the Dems go after Trump. They lost the election. They are like boy who took his ball home when he was losing.

Checking word use in letter to editor

Mr. Vavoulis’ use of a phrase “the communal mind,” without definition, seems sly. He intimates there is some grand, common residing place for ideas about which there can be no disagreement. The central idea of fascism is that there is and should be such agreement. The central idea of our republic is that individuals have rights that must be honored and not infringed so that the will of the people can be determined and made into policies. In that way, commonality may be found. It is not something which already exists — it must be revealed.

Vavoulis’ excoriation of Trump and Pence, and his name-calling (he implies they are demagogues and, identifies them as “religious fanatics”) seems an attempt to diminish their individual rights to express opinions and the citizenry’s right to hear them. The Founding Fathers, in the First Amendment, elevated those ideals above all other competing ones by the words “make no law”! Whatever is meant by the phrase “communal mind,” all Americans should want those ideals which, clearly, preserve freedom of thought, to be foremost, and, not look to derogate speakers with whom they disagree.

Like it or not, Pence and Trump are leaders, elected in the same manner as those that preceded them in office, and are entitled to express opinions, as most leaders do.