Letters to the Editor

Regarding Walter Williams’ exposure of our college campuses:

Vigilance to our education system is essential to our way of life, the freedom of expression that is enjoyed in our country and laws that keep encroachment in check. Our campuses are hotbeds of sedition and gradual erosion, especially the Christian underpinning we have placed with our young people there to protect the Constitution. Please reprint Williams’ opinion often as a reminder.

Mary Wood

Tyler

SWING STATES MATTER

Democratic voters must realize that to win the presidential election they must not select a candidate who suits them, rather they must select a candidate who suits the majority of voters in Pennsylvania, Florida, Michigan, Wisconsin and the other swing states.

John Dawson

Henderson

ALINSKY’S PLAYBOOK

It was in 1944 when Norman Mattoon Thomas last ran for the presidency of the United States under the banner of the Socialist Party of America. He ran for the presidency unsuccessfully a total of six times in his political career. In one of his 1944 speeches after his last loss, he offered a bone chilling statement and projection about socialism in this nation.

He said “The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of ‘liberalism,’ they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing what happened.”

Thomas went on to say: “I no longer need to run as a presidential candidate for the Socialist Party. The Democratic Party has adopted our platform.”

Now that Super Tuesday is fast approaching, many Democrats have bought into Bernie Sanders’ line of rhetoric hook line and sinker with all the freebies he wants to hand out. Democrats need to seriously consider the candidate they pick. If people are not scared of Bernie, they are definitely not listening. And when Bernie won’t tell the American people how his programs will be paid for, it sends up all sort of red flags that he is not being honest and forthright. Does Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” playbook sound familiar here? Bernie is following that playbook to the letter. We all need to be scared of him and those who support his cause.

J. Armstrong

Tyler

LOBBYISTS IN THE SWAMP

Though I don’t watch much TV, a few days ago I watched an episode of “Bull” with my wife. The premise of this episode was a brilliant young doctor who was arrested because many years earlier, his father had paid a large amount of money to a highly rated college in order to get his son the best medical education and training he could get. The prosecutor called it bribery. This was not unlike the recent true life ridiculousness.

My question is, why is it unlawful for a parent, or anyone, to pay an institution of higher learning a bonus to get the best education possible? It is unlawful because lawmakers say that it is. These are the same elected lawmakers who are paid big bucks by people paid by large corporations or tax-free enterprises and such to get the legislators to write laws that favor them or are otherwise in their favor. These people are called lobbyists. The legislators are elected by the people to represent the people, but very seldom do. Many don’t have much money, so they use other people’s money to get elected, then they use their elected position to better themselves. They better themselves by taking money and favors from the lobbyists. Many go into office with very little money, but go out of office multi-millionaires. Then they go to work as lobbyists. Why not? They know how the system works — who can be bought and how to buy them, thereby adding more to their personal wealth.

I ask, which is worse, criminalizing a parent for paying a little extra to educate their child or the elected legislator who is paid a lot extra by lobbyists to get legislation passed in their favor. In Washington, D.C., these legislators and the lobbyists are what President Trump calls “the swamp.” It is easy to see why they are so intent on ridding themselves of him. They like being in “the swamp.” Mr. President, “Clean that swamp.”

Johnny Smith

Tyler