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To the editor:
Our people don’t know the difference between big events and little events. Recently on daytime TV’s The View, America’s popular commentators glorified the N.Y. Knicks’ appearance in the NBA Finals like it was the answer to all America’s problems.
They do not understand that professional sports detract from the breadth and depth of citizen study and action necessary to deal with Democracy’s Final Hour in America.
America’s Evangelical Christians wring their hands about marital adultery all the while ignoring adultery against the U.S. Constitution.
Pistol Pete Hegseth goes to France to remember D-Day and instead lectures European nations about the need to stop the “invasion” of immigrant freedom-seekers to their shores. Which is more important Pete, stopping fascism or stopping people of color from obtaining a better life?
America worries about gay marriage, when heterosexual marriage and attendant child-birthing and child-rearing have been going down the tubes for decades for reasons having nothing to do with homosexuality.
Kimball Shinkoskey
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Valete
I agree! Americans are distracted by trivial events and issues, neglecting more significant problems like the erosion of democracy and the need for citizen action. However, all is not lost; Americans are waking up. The reelection of Mr. Trump is proof positive that the American voter is not supportive of the Democratic Party’s social and economic policies.
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Valete
I beg to differ with your pessimistic analogy,
for the Knicks won the NBA Championship.
With will and gumption and no fawning apology,
the Knicks displayed remarkable leadership.
The San Antonio Spurs proved to be a faltering monopoly;
their cheap fouls on the Knicks showed no sportsmanship.
Through the Spurs’ dirty play and their foul verbosity,
the Knicks attacked the Spurs with gamesmanship.
Though Victor Wembanyama’s is a genetic oddity,
the Knicks’ comradeship won the NBA Championship.
Thursday, June 18 Report this