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 get together’s path” (“Trump and Republicans return to communist assaults in opposition to Democrats forward of the midterm elections,” July 2).
Course? The progressive wing of the Democratic Social gathering is in search of to really plot a course on this polarized period. The old-guard, centrist department that leads the get together 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 might say communists wish to “utterly destroy the standard American lifestyle.” The issue with this hyperbolic notion is that there isn’t a communist motion within the U.S. at current.
Steve Freedman, Venice
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To the editor: The Democratic Social gathering 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 get together 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 courses and when a lot of faculty training was financed by the federal government.
I can hear Republicans shouting that children immediately simply need free stuff, however the reality is that they simply need their share of the pie, a pie that has been nearly utterly devoured by billionaires. They’re uninterested in having to start out their working life so mired in debt to the school system that residence possession and a snug 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 transferring again a bit of.
Zena Thorpe, Chatsworth
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To the editor: Steve Sloan described how President Trump is asking many Democrats communists. Nonetheless, right here is one other harmful a part of Trump’s speech. He condemned communists as “godless.” Atheism doesn’t mechanically entail anyone 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 aren’t any supernatural companies. Many spiritual fundamentalists reject the supernatural claims of different perception programs. There isn’t a proof that one faith’s miraculous claims are true however others are false.
Trump appears to overlook that there isn’t a non secular check for being an American. He should keep in mind that he’s the president of everybody, not simply those that imagine in a supernatural being. It’s overdue for him to rise to the benevolent stage 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 pondering.
