Italo Zarate’s letter, “Voter switch spurs comment,” Aug. 1, laments that droves of previous Democratic voters are switching to Republican and wonders why. Take your pick, Italo: The doubling of gas prices, sky-high inflation, rising food costs, potential war with China, unfettered illegal immigration, billions given to Ukraine with no accountability, critical race theory, weakening of our military, anti-police rhetoric, Hunter’s crimes, etc. Those voters have come to their senses and are going through voter regret.
Your faithfulness and commitment to Biden’s sinking ship is impressive. You are the poker player who has been bluffing with a bad hand and now you have to go all in! Impressive.
Italo, please spare us Obama quotes (“Quotes noted, July 31). Here’s one from Michelle Obama after her husband’s 2008 Democrat presidential nomination: “For the first time in my adult life, I am really proud of my country.” After how successful she was in her adult life prior to that time? What a joke.
I remember being proud of the U.S. since we used to sing “America the Beautiful” in first grade. Also in that letter you sound quite condescending when you say, “Anti-abortion people mean well ….”
I don’t understand the Democrats’ obsession with abortion and the entire thing kind of baffles me because it is absolutely bizarre that anyone would choose this particular hill to die on or, rather, to kill a bunch of babies on. The Roe v. Wade reversal by the Supreme Court did not outlaw abortion, it simply sent the issue back to the individual states where they can decide to legalize it or not.
Joel Ramirez
Edinburg
America
assaulted
America is experiencing an assault on its virtue, its nobility, its very existence. And the assailants and rapists are telling the American people to simply sit back, close their eyes, clog their ears, and just enjoy it.
“Don’t open your eyes,” they screech in the dark. “Just do as you’re told, and we’ll do the rest.” And like intruders in the night, they ravage, plunder, ransack and pillage the treasures of lifetimes of dreams, and of struggles and sacrifices. And we watch in dismay and horror as they dismantle and tear apart the entirety of a nation’s heritage and legacy. It is the rape of a nation. The slaughter of a dream.
And America is left on the brink of collapse. Exhausted and ravaged. Our Constitution bleeding. Our liberties flailing. Our ideals, scorched and burning. Our house is on fire, consumed with the flames of insurrection and betrayal. And Americans lie motionless and frozen in time, at the sight, the sound, the anguish and the agony of having been attacked and abused by the very individuals who were supposed to protect, defend and uphold us with regard and with respect.
The assailants and rapists no strangers, but our guardians, our custodians and sentinels of our very being, our very existence.
The rape of a nation. An incestuous betrayal of our American family and our American Dream.
We were not the first, nor will we be the last; history will judge whether we recover from the trauma and the pain of this domestic abuse.
Al Garcia
San Juan
