Americans must unite to dethrone King Donald I
Woods Cross, Utah: Many Democrats have decided to wait out Donald Trump and do their best to get back to the White House in 2028.
That’s the strategy ancient democrats adopted when Julius Caesar came to power in Rome. They were still waiting for their turn back in power 500 years later when the Roman emperors were finally overthrown by the barbarians.
Our ancestors did more than just sit on their hands and say “pretty please” to the British king. There is no need for violence today, but there is plenty of need for courage.
There is also a need for rapid and sophisticated education of the citizenry in the provisions of our constitutional law. In addition, the media, local government, and universities need to provide the country with a vivid rundown of the disastrous political history of kings and tyrants throughout time.
Former President Bill Clinton once said, “There is nothing wrong with America that can’t be cured by what is right with America.” He was dead wrong. What is wrong with America has already clearly overpowered what is right with America, as government, corporations, and churches bend the knee to America’s first ever king. Kimball Shinkoskey
Consider the alternative
Elizabeth, N.J.: Whatever you may think of Trump, can you even think of this country being governed by the Democrats right now? Joel M. Glazer
Bringers of death
Valley Stream, L.I.: I have felt for nearly a decade now that Trump and his MAGA zealots represent death — death to reason, to empathy, to compassion, to science and to the arts. With their new Big Beautiful Bill, however, they are moving from a figurative party of death to a literal one. If it is enacted, it will be the cause of more deaths before their time in this country than COVID was. It won’t be quantifiable, but millions of people will die earlier than they should have because they will no longer have the health care they had before these abominations took office. The creators of this bill will have blood on their hands that can never be washed off, and so will every voter who voted for any of them, because they knew exactly what was coming. And you guys even managed to bring measles back. Congratulations! Allan Canino
Imposed pollution
Brooklyn: Daily News, you deftly juxtapose our realities. On page 4 of the May 22 evening edition, you showed us how Senate Republicans voted to reverse California’s multi-year march toward stripping their air of car and truck pollution. Then on page 6, you showed us how the California utility Southern California Edison, a major cause of the deadly Thomas fire in 2017 and likely cause of the recent Eaton fire, is enraging customers by seeking a second rate hike in one year. Almost as if repeated deadly wildfires are not enough for Trump-led Republican senators, they need to choke Californians with vehicle pollution to boot! You may not have intended the juxtaposition, but it certainly illuminates the shame of the senators’ actions. New York legislators (I’m looking at you, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie) need to finally pass the NY HEAT Act to clean our air and lower our gas bills, and Gov. Hochul must sign it to firewall the results against federal cruelty. Joanne Boger
Unsympathetic victim
Pearl River, N.Y.: To Voicer Daniel Jean Lipsman: If you truly believe that an unarmed, non-threatening female veteran, Ashli Babbitt, climbing through a broken window to enter the Capitol deserved what she got, you are a seriously demented individual who suffers from Trump Derangement Syndrome. You would be one of the first screaming to the high heavens if a police officer shot and killed an unarmed Black Lives Matter or Antifa rioter, yelling for that cop’s head. Capt. Michael Byrd shot and killed a non-threatening female who wasn’t showing any kind of aggression toward him, as heard and shown by testimony and videos. Where is the cry of racism from you seeing that the officer is Black and Babbitt was white — oh, that’s right, it has to do with a Trump supporter, so no matter the crime, it’s OK. Robert Brennan
Not sorry for speech
Fairfield, Conn.: To Voicer John D. Cilento: In your letter you said you were pleasantly surprised to read a letter titled “Trump and Pope Leo will lead together in faith.” Your happiness was short-lived as you continued to read other letters that did not share your optimism. You went on to say that you stopped regularly reading Voice of the People because by publishing letters with opinions that differed from yours, the news was part of the “mainstream media and deep state.” Am I to assume that any opinion that differs from yours when it comes to Trump is not valid? You, sir, have described either a cult or a dictatorship. Last time I checked, there is freedom of speech. It’s in a document called the Constitution and it’s something our democracy is based on. You should give it a read. Stephen Johnson
Obsessive opposition
Huntington, L.I.: I found Voicer Morgan O’Rourke’s comment about Trump supporters allowing Joe Biden to live rent-free in their heads highly ironic. Many readers of this newspaper suffer from TDS. Aren’t they allowing Trump to live rent-free in their heads? Tom Saracco
Status remains
Chatham, N.J.: To Voicer Bradley Morris: You’re right, we should be proud to admit white South African refugees to the U.S. Clearly, they are severely underprivileged and impoverished, owning only 72% of the agricultural land while representing 7-8% of the population. A brief look at the country’s history will explain this imbalance: Dutch colonization began in the 1600s, followed by British rule in the 1900s. Descendants of Dutch and British colonists still ran the show in 1948, when apartheid became the law of the land. Institutionalized racism didn’t end until the 1990s. Trump doesn’t like most foreign refugees but has made an exception for Scandinavians. Since there are currently no political refugees from Sweden or Norway, he’s willing to admit the South Africans. Paul Denk
Solves nothing
Nutley, N.J.: To Voicer Frank Feeley: I read with a range of emotions your proposed solution to the presence of Hamas in the Gaza Strip — suspicion that this impractical, irrational solution was the product of a Daily News employee with a bizarre sense of humor; curiosity at what is meant by the statement that anyone remaining in the Gaza Strip “will be dealt with accordingly”; hope that once the writer saw his letter in print, he would recognize the unfairness of the solution. And last, the recognition that this solution is in synchrony with past acts where a more powerful group has imposed a system of isolation on a less powerful and unwanted group. Think reservations, internment camps and concentration camps. Rather than reducing violence, such solutions only increase the possibility of it from disenfranchised groups by attracting otherwise neutral individuals and groups to their cause. Peter Griswold
Fond memories
Commack, L.I.: I enjoyed reading ” ‘A Bronx kid’ at 94” (May 25). I remember Dominic Chianese from the mid-’60s, when he was the emcee at Gerdes Folk City — located at its original W. 4th St. address — as well as the venue’s owner and founder, Mike Porco. I also performed at The Bitter End, the Gaslight Cafe and again at Gerdes in its new home on W. 3rd St. Those were the days. Wishing Chianese a successful event at Town Hall on June 30. Yvonne Fitzner
Minor mention
Freeport, L.I.: All the coverage the Indy 500 gets — the “greatest spectacle in racing” — in what the Daily News calls a sports section is a parenthetical phrase in a photo caption about a basketball game? Really? Bob Sterner
