Letters: A much different response to election; Casino will harm community
A much different response to election
It looks as though Trump voters have prevailed and now we will see whether Donald Trump meant any of the things he said while he was campaigning. Maybe he will become a dictator as he promised. Maybe he will use the power of the White House to get revenge on those he feels have crossed him. Maybe he will launch mass deportations. Maybe he will impose massive tariffs and tank the economy. Maybe he send the military against protesters who annoy him. We just have to wait and see.
Here is what we won’t see: We won’t see Kamala Harris launch a four-year-long temper tantrum claiming that she was cheated out of the presidency. We won’t see yards filled with tattered Harris campaign signs for years and years. We won’t see hundreds of pointless lawsuits challenging the election results. We won’t see Democratic leaders hemming and hawing whenever they are asked if they have any evidence that the election was in any way unfair. We won’t see Democratic partisans making death threats against election officials. Most of all, because Kamala Harris and her supporters believe in the rule of law and the Constitution, we won’t see a gang of heavily armed fanatics storm the Capitol Building, attempt to overthrow the government of the United States of America and install their leader by force.
Casino will harm community
I am writing to say I do not want the casino. Some will say because of my name I should not have any say. I am a person and have my opinion. I feel a lot of the reason my husband is in prison is because of Mr. Lubert and his friends on the BOT, they did not vet the victims. Mr. Lubert feels he owns State College; he doesn’t. People need to see what a casino will bring into State College, nothing good. Mr. Lubert did this at the King of Prussia Mall. He built the casino and then in a few years sold it for big bucks. That is all he cares about, money. He doesn’t care about our town and people. Please stop the casino.
Statement like ‘fingernails on a blackboard?’
In the Nov. 10 edition of the CDT, in the column entitled “Under the baobab: Respecting election results and our neighbors” by Charles Dumas, I read the following statement: “l had hoped that we as a nation had matured to the point that a woman of Black and Asian ancestry could be chosen as president. I was wrong.” Implied within this statement is surely the attitude of “matured like I have.” I’m wondering if such statements would strike the majority of Americans (aka as “the garbage” by our current president) like fingernails on a blackboard, or is it just me?
The value of a liberal arts education
Einstein said true thoughts are the free creations of the human mind, and in the university, studies in the College of Liberal Arts celebrate and further this. This is liberal in its freedom and the very center of the university.
It is good to insist on this now when college for many is becoming just a job training center for “money” itself unexamined with other truths and beauties in comparison.
In examining money, Charles Williams says it is part of moral exchange — the health of the self is the wealth of the self exchanged — part of love, part of the reciprocal at the center of the world.
It is good to think of this before you take a job at Goldman Sachs.