Letters: Lack of masks at RNC set bad example, and more

Lack of masks at RNC set bad example

President Donald Trump arranged to have his acceptance speech at the White house before 1,500 older Republicans sitting right next to each other — by far the majority not wearing masks — in this time of the COVID pandemic, where 180,000 Americans have now died.

This was a terrible example to set for university students when the universities are fighting to stay open, with almost no guidance from the Republican-run federal government. Perhaps this terrible example is a partial cause for the inappropriate parties we have seen around Penn State.

Will Americans act against Trump?

In light of the recent Republican National Convention, I couldn’t help but think of my recent visit to the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., where a display featured this startling paragraph: “Of the groups in Germany that opposed Hitler’s dictatorship, only one, code-named ‘White Rose,’ openly protested the Nazi genocide against Jews.

The White Rose was formed in 1942 by university students in Munich who were outraged by the capitulating of educated Germans to Nazism. Its members used anti-Nazi leaflets and wall slogans to urge the German public to resist. The group’s first leaflet charged: ‘Nothing is so unworthy of a civilized people as allowing itself to be governed without opposition by an irresponsible clique that has yielded to base instinct.’ The second white Rose leaflet rebuked Germans for tolerating the persecution and genocide of Jews.”

Many members were arrested and later executed. Last week we witnessed that irresponsible clique as it dazzled its base with “a whole lot of excess” (apologies to Eva Peron). Will we excuse away every crime, lie, cover-up and moral failing that Donald Trump commits? Are we truly civilized people? Do we honestly not only say we believe in democracy but strive to do the work required to retain it? Or do we avert our eyes from the cancer that is Donald Trump in order to gaze in awe at the fireworks that filled the night sky over the White House?

Knowing what you stand for

I’m for Democracy not autocracy. I’m for truth not lies. I’m for decency, kindness and caring, not bullying and callous behavior. I’m for humble hard working leaders, not entitled narcissistic leaders.

I’m for leaders with experience in governing that get things passed in the Congress and Senate. I’m not for leading by presidential executive orders. I’m for love not hate. I’m for equal rights and know that we have too long judged people by the color of their skin.

Black Lives Matter is not a hate group. I’m not for white supremacy groups. I’m for the people not the corporations that employ them and therefore profess you are for the people. I know global warming will detrimentally change our world for our grandchildren. I’m not for ignoring the science that proved global warming.

I am for good-paying clean energy jobs and understand we need to transition to a clean energy system. I’m for hunting fishing hiking and biking in wonderful central Pennsylvania environment. I have owned guns but I am not for the NRA, which supports gun manufacturers not law-abiding gun owners.

I am a Catholic/Christian but abortion is not the only issue in the election of a president. I am a health care provider who knows the bureaucracy of health care costs too much money and a single-payer system would save money. I am for Joe Biden for all these reasons. I’m not for Donald Trump for all these reasons. What are you for?

Ironic

They …

March

Agitate

Destroy property

Believe in a noble cause

Stand up to systemic oppression

Seek to form a more just society

At the birth of our nation they are cast as patriots.

Sons of Liberty.Heroes

The same actions today cast them as thugs.

Terrorists

Anarchists

Ironic.