To the editor: This text states, “The renewed push [to attack Democrats as communists] may tug at tensions amongst Democrats who’re largely united of their loathing of Trump however are divided over the occasion’s course” (“Trump and Republicans return to communist attacks against Democrats ahead of the midterm elections,” July 2).
Route? The progressive wing of the Democratic Celebration is searching for to truly plot a course on this polarized period. The old-guard, centrist department that leads the occasion has been rudderless for too lengthy.
MAGA and the GOP are so bent on returning to a time passed by that it’s no shock that they’d say communists wish to “fully destroy the normal American lifestyle.” The issue with this hyperbolic notion is that there is no such thing as a communist motion within the U.S. at current.
Steve Freedman, Venice
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To the editor: The Democratic Celebration ought to welcome and embrace the democratic socialists and begin speaking about restructuring the system in order that the financial pie is extra pretty divided.
The occasion must forswear neoliberalism and backtrack to the Nineteen Sixties-Seventies, a time when the tax system was structured extra pretty towards the center and dealing lessons and when a lot of faculty training was financed by the federal government.
I can hear Republicans shouting that children at the moment simply need free stuff, however the reality is that they simply need their share of the pie, a pie that has been virtually fully devoured by billionaires. They’re bored with having to start out their working life so mired in debt to the faculty system that residence possession and a cushty future appear a distant dream.
The inventory market is hovering. “Nice,” say MAGA devotees. Properly, let’s hear it for the billionaires, however what number of bus drivers, schoolteachers, nurses and such are closely invested within the inventory market?
Let’s transfer on by shifting again just a little.
Zena Thorpe, Chatsworth
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To the editor: Steve Sloan described how President Trump is looking many Democrats communists. Nevertheless, right here is one other harmful a part of Trump’s speech. He condemned communists as “godless.” Atheism doesn’t routinely entail anybody view of financial coverage. Ayn Rand, an atheist, was a well-known twentieth century defender of capitalism.
We atheists come to our views from a philosophical/scientific place that’s based mostly on naturalism, the idea that there are not any supernatural businesses. Many non secular fundamentalists reject the supernatural claims of different perception programs. There is no such thing as a proof that one faith’s miraculous claims are true however others are false.
Trump appears to overlook that there is no such thing as a non secular take a look at for being an American. He should keep in mind that he’s the president of everybody, not simply those that consider in a supernatural being. It’s overdue for him to rise to the benevolent degree of the presidency’s required embrace of all of us.
Edward Tabash, Los Angeles
This author is chair of the board of administrators of the Middle for Inquiry, an advocacy group selling science and important considering.
