Dear Editor,
How should we vote? We know Biden is older than Trump, but we also know that he has been working hard for Americans, all of us. We also know that Trump doesn’t value truth, or non-white men or any women.
He called soldiers “losers” if they didn’t survive the war, and attacks anyone who tells him an uncomfortable truth.
Project 2025 gives Trump directions on what to do if he wins the next election: Eliminate efforts to address climate change while giving fossil fuels wider reign to pollute; reduce or abolish regulations that protect workers from known dangers; replace seasoned civil servants with low-information toadies who will do what ever he asks.
We have watched him fire people of integrity who have refused to lie for him, replacing them with yes men of little knowledge.
Justice will be jettisoned for far-right ends, as it has been by his (once) Supreme Court appointees, brought in by deception. Nor do laws stop him from using the presidency as a cash cow.
Already judges and legislators are being bought by the staggeringly rich, who have benefited from the enormous tax cuts they have received.
Trump and his family have used his position to make more money, ignoring the emoluments clause, seeking donations to keep him out of jail and claiming (untruthfully) he’ll get the death penalty. That’s good for a few million bucks.
Woke means anyone who knows the truth and thinks for themselves. Not dangerous. Book banning by non readers denies our youth access to truth. Furthermore, the attempt to force Christian nationalism on America is a blatant violation of the separation between Church and State.
That was once a reason many early Americans came here, to be free to believe what they did and make choices for themselves.
Instead, Project 2025 and Trump offer us control by a dictator, focused on the white and the wealthy.
On July 4, I watched on PBS (to be eliminated) happy Americans gathered to celebrate this promise of freedom.
Do we want a despot eager to end Social Security, Medicare, health care, universal education, and thinking for ourselves? Not I.
Jill Grubb
Gambier, Ohio