The Scariest Letter to the Editor Ever Written
The following is a true letter to the editor from a North East Pennsylvania newspaper. It is frightening to think that there are people out there who think like this.
A new Constitution to reflect the present
I am fed up with conservatives who criticize everything our president and the Democrats do. They love to refer to a 200-plus-year-old document that is about as relevant today as the horse and buggy. We need a new Constitution. One that reflects our current needs and rights and Obama’s mandate for change from the American people gives him the power and indeed, the obligation to create one. We know now that the free market does not work. Obama was wise enough to know that only government could save us from ourselves and our adherence to a capitalist system that is run on greed. Let’s use this wisdom to ensure that every American has the right to health care, housing, transportation, a college education and a good-paying job. As for the current health care debate, how can the average American understand such a complex problem? We have experts in the government to figure out what is best for us. Let’s let them do the job we voted them into office to do.
No, I am not putting the writers name here out of sympathy for them.
I agree with most of that. I don’t agree with the implicit idea that we should stop thinking, and let our alien overlords think for us, and capitalism isn’t as inherently bad as that writer seems to feel. But with great power comes — or should come — great responsibility, and that’s where the current manifestation of capitalism has failed us. We (the country as a whole) rewarded greed and arrogance, and ignored the vast majority. That has to change. Despite the assumption by those who succeed by stealing that such is how Obama won, that isn’t the case.
Is he perfect, the Chosen One? Oh, hell no. But is he at least trying to make life better, while simultaneously working to fix a broken financial environment, be smarter in our foreign policy, and figure out what to do in our wars? Yes. And only a willfully blind person can deny that.
You know: Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Steele. Those guys.
It’s scary that there are people that don’t think the same as you? The writer of the letter is entitled to their opinion, no matter how offensive you think it is. Just as you are entitled to your opinion, no matter how offensive it is to me. And it is.
Fair enough. But, does it bother you at all that the letter writer has stated that you don’t have the facilities to comprehend a debate that is going on right now? Judging by your well articulated comment I think that you are capable of formulating a well reasoned opinion on any subject of interest or concern to yourself. Now, I may agree or disagree with you based on the merits of your argument, but I wouldn’t stoop as low as to say that you can’t understand it.