Letters: Keeping the peace; Project 2025’s assault on women
Keeping the peace
With all the current cultural and political turmoil it is easy to get stuck in the roar of division and hate. My fear is that those feelings boil over into violent action directed at our neighbors.
Today I reach out to the community with a message of peace. I’ve been trying to process all the upheaval in the country. I think it’s OK to be angry or scared or have whatever emotions you are having. The key, perhaps, is to process those emotions in safe spaces with trusted friends who can listen and calm us. We need to keep the peace, we need to keep the emotion from boiling over into violence. People lose too much when violence and instability break out.
Perhaps every one of us can step outside “our camp” and find some shred of common ground with “the opponents.” Perhaps instead of division we set our minds on peace, our words on peace, our actions on peace. It starts with a decision to try.
It is possible to decide and to choose to step outside all the crazy rhetoric and emotion and say you will not participate in it. Working for peace is as hard and as easy as that.
Project 2025’s assault on women
Trump’s and the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 is a regressive manifesto that places far-right fundamentalist Christianity over Americans’ liberty. It is an all-out assault on women’s autonomy.
Two years ago, the six reactionary Christians on the Court — including Trump’s three appointees — ended women’s rights to safe and legal abortion. They instigated assaults on privacy and family planning. Trump celebrated. “I was able to kill Roe v. Wade.” He has taken credit for the draconian anti-women’s health bills extremists have been advancing in states across the country. Project 2025 is the next step in this war on women.
Trump appointee Roger Severino wrote Project 2025’s chapter on the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Severino says, HHS should “maintain a biblically based ... definition of marriage and family” and act accordingly. He forwards an extreme system to restrict doctors from providing effective care to women and to prevent women from traveling across state lines to access care. Severino outlines the requisite surveillance apparatus. Purely ideological, it has nothing to do with improving HHS’s mission to enhance sound medical science, health or well-being. Given his love of power, we know Trump would create a surveillance bureau to monitor women like the Iranian Guidance Patrol enforcing sharia law.
Donald Trump, the GOP, and the Heritage Foundation have a plan to mandate birth at any cost and they’ll set up a surveillance state to do it. It’s called Project 2025.
Learn more. Resist it. Spread the word.
Vote accordingly.
Reasons to support Trump
I respectfully disagree with some of the points made in a recent letter about Trump being a modern Svengali.
First, people who become billionaires are risk takers and have had a few failures.
Trump had the borders more secure. Now we have millions of illegal immigrants in our country bringing drugs, disease and costing us for their health care and education.
Trump had us more energy independent and the strategic petroleum reserve was lower under Biden than Trump.
Trump was respected by our adversaries as a strong leader. Consider Putin invading the Ukraine and Hamas attacking Israel under Biden administration.
Inflation was down during the Trump administration, now it is worsening as prices for food, gas and buying home are increasing.
Trump succeeded in many ways despite the liberal media pushing the Russian hoax and other misinformation.
Trump did not go against any decisions by the Supreme Court.
Trump did not dictate. Biden has pushed us to drive electric cars, get rid of gas stoves and restrict the parents’ right to know what their children our being taught in school.
Regarding being manipulated into silence, I have not been manipulated. I do not agree that Elise Stefanik and Tim Scott have lost their honor and integrity.
These are the reasons I support Trump and am very concerned with the direction of our country under Biden.
Media bias in favor of Trump
Widespread claims of an anti-Trump media bias abound, despite scant evidence. But post-presidential debate reporting reveals unquestionable bias — in favor of Donald Trump.
A media frenzy, teeming with inaccuracies and irresponsible speculation, is unrelentingly focused on President Biden, while giving a pass to the elephant in the room! (no, Biden didn’t say “goodest” in his ABC interview — and the neurologist often visited the White House when Biden wasn’t even there!)
Why has Trump escaped comparable scrutiny? Beyond post-debate fact-checking (Trump told 30 whopper lies), little has been said about his obvious cognitive decline, gibberish-filled rallies (electrocution versus shark attack), and threats to imprison his political enemies! Trump even escapes coverage of multiple credible accusations of rape!
Coverage of Biden’s “terrible debate performance” is overkill, especially considering the former president’s abject unfitness for office. The just released Republican “platform” is virtually devoid of policy and sidesteps abortion, but endorses fetal personhood. The New York Times reports that Republicans are softening their positions on controversial issues, when in fact they’re gaslighting voters, knowing how unpopular their positions are!
Trump’s latest lie — he doesn’t know what Project 2025 is or who’s behind it — is preposterous. The Republican plan to dismantle our government was largely written by former Trump officials and is overseen by the Heritage Foundation, the same right wing think tank that drafted his policies and staffed his first administration.
If reelected, Trump has made clear he’ll ban abortion, dismantle civil rights, reverse climate policy, and abandon Ukraine.
Report that why don’t you?!