Letters: Concerning messages from Borowicz; Much at stake with next governor

Concerning messages from Borowicz

I met State Rep. Stephanie Borowicz at a polling station and engaged her in conversation for a brief period. When the subject was climate change she seemed clueless and began quoting the Bible. She also seemed not to be able to comprehend that I had no formal religion.

If Borowicz met the small brown-skinned Jew that is her personal savior she would be shocked that he viewed her as anti-Christian. Which of The Beatitudes do you suppose she subscribes to? Blessed are the gun-owners for they are statistically twice as likely to be killed by a gun as the non-gun owners. Blessed are the unvaccinated for they will suffer and die at nine times the rate of the vaccinated.

The newsletter I received from her was all about encouraging her constituency to die. Make not getting vaccinated a matter for choosing “freedom” rather than the necessary way to protect yourself and others from a deadly pandemic which has now killed more Americans than the entire population of Wyoming.

Rather than a Christian she is a cult follower. A cult based around an obvious career criminal with virtually no redeeming features. A human failure who has never loved or been loved but is now worshiped, at least outwardly, by politicians who put career ahead of saving the lives of American citizens. Keller, Corman and Thompson are also guilty of this, their honor forever tarnished.

Much at stake with next governor

The saying, “it’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future,” is attributed to Yogi Berra. Who can argue with Yogi?

However, Pennsylvania residents can easily and accurately predict a horrifying future if a Republican is elected governor next year.

If the Republicans continue to hold the majority in both houses of the State Legislature, and we end up with a Republican governor, then we can credibly predict exactly what will happen: Pennsylvanians will be living in a state that behaves like Arizona, Texas, Florida, and others where the Republicans hold all the power. Only Democratic Governor Wolf is preventing this from happening now.

While we don’t know who will be on the ballot in 2022, we surely can predict that, if elected, a GOP governor will enable and empower the worst behaviors of people like Jake Corman, Doug Mastriano, Cris Dush, Kerry Benninghoff and others whose game plan is to steal our elections, suppress the vote, wage war on women and children, and ignore science.

It’s not a coincidence that states with a Republican “trifecta” behave like this; It’s exactly what they do. Don’t think for a minute that it can’t happen here. It’s what Republicans are doing in every state where they have unchecked power.

Voters beware! Decide now not to let a Republican become our next governor.

Difficult to predict the future? On this, Yogi could be wrong. If we elect a Republican governor, we know exactly what will happen, and it will be a disaster for Pennsylvania.

The real loss of freedom

I was very much annoyed by Ms. Gardner’s letter of Sept. 30. I have read other such letters in which the words, socialism and freedom, are so abused and misused that they become divorced from their original meanings. These epithets are now simply employed as empty word weapons against those of us who think government has an important role in protecting its citizens from a plague. How fortunate we are that after millennia of ignorance, human genius can finally understand the nature of viruses and conceive of means to combat them. The present COVID plague could have been arrested this past summer through vaccinations and masking if only people like Ms. Gardner had put aside political prejudices and availed herself of these scientific wonders and done the responsible thing of helping her fellow citizens. A loss of freedom, you say? How about my loss of freedom and those like me who have spent a precious 18 months of their lives as if under house arrest, unable to go to movies, theater, concerts, restaurants, their own office, or to travel, to invite friends over or to attend family and social gatherings? That, rather than having to wear a scrap of cloth on the head in public, is a real loss of freedom.