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“All it takes is one kind act a day to change the world,” according to popular culture.
America has been regaling itself with the kindness-solves-everything gospel roughly since the Beatles won our hearts with their song, “All we need is love.”
The whole concept comes from a modern interpretation of the life and teaching of Jesus. Christianity Lite says it’s all about personal, private human interaction with friends, neighbors and strangers. Democracy’s age-old tradition of setting up public laws to regulate bad behavior is outdated, even counterproductive.
Ladies who have had the unpleasant experience, are you in favor of junking laws to curb stalkers? Just use kindness instead?
Depending upon love instead of law seems to be at least partly responsible for our current plunge into greater and greater depths of crime and despair.
It’s time for a turn back to rule of law.
Kimball Shinkoskey
Woods Cross, Utah
Recent letter
draws response
This is in response to Imelda Coronado’s letter, “Destructive agenda seen,” of April 24.
Before Russia invaded Ukraine, Ms Coronado’s. opinions flourished with angst about communism. These concerns would seem to fit better in the 1950s when the Red Scare covered our black-and-white TV screens.
“Buying energy” from Vladimir Putin and Nicolas Maduro, hints Ms. Coronado, “perhaps … is done in the name of a secret pathway to communism .… “Her arguments glide over questions she has raised. Who is buying energy from the two dictators and why? Who is not buying from them and why? Statements like: “The destructive agenda against America continues” may leave some readers looking for support for this statement when only a claim remains as if it were fact.
What follows in her letter would take too long to unpack here, but rest assured it is heavy with bias and general criticism of prominent Democrats, global and common, everyday elites who are always Democrats.
There is no need for anyone to “use climate change scare tactics” when climate change is scary enough. When was the first Earth Day? Anyone remember? 1970. We would all be more articulate on the subject if we were to read up what is written by those “expert, fact-checked, scientist Ph.D.s” she says are the people who “guide us.”
But the most dangerous, foggy innuendos Ms. Coronado floats are her concerns with phrases like “parental rights,” “mind coercing” and “mind control” relative to children in school and out. I too, worry about such things and the state we live in whose official policy is that critical thinking will not be taught in Texas schools. Note that I did not say anything about critical race theory. I said critical thinking — you know, good, old-fashioned analysis of what is being said and what it means.
The danger I mentioned resides in the concern and image of this: “The innocence and protection of our little children is non-negotiable.” Of course. What do we want to protect them from? Other people not like us, which Ms. Coronado terms, “transgenderism, fake race supremacy, BLM, critical race theory, diversity, equity and inclusion ….”
These shouts echo the extremist, far-right, QAnon tent, which the Republican party owns and condones. Power-hungry Republican senators and representatives who leave no doubt by their rhetoric their intent to destroy reputations and blanket the present government and those who govern with pure unadulterated lies. The present character assassination launched by the GOP is wrapped in QAnon’s favorite word, pedophile.
Shirley Rickett
Alamo
