A response to Rhoda Alben-Aronson

To the editor:

As my recently deceased critical nurse sister used to say, “some people are educated beyond their mental capabilities.”

First, in all my letters to the editor, I have never expressed support for any political candidate; I only deal with the issues of the day. Secondly, like Rhoda Alben-Aronson, I am also an older, lifelong voter, but I am also a lifelong independent, giving my support to the individual candidates and not either party.

So first to address her letter, Trump did, in fact, fast-track the vaccine, but his stance on wearing masks and lockdowns I thought was perplexing. But so was that of our own Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who forced older infected covid patients back into nursing homes not equipped to isolate and care for them with a known death toll in the thousands.

Let’s not forget the yearlong government censorship of any and all debate concerning the hypotheses that covid was the result of a Hunan “lab accident” within China. That country and its leadership reporting to the World Health Organization regarding the extent and danger that the covid virus was worthless.

I doubt anybody took the president’s “drinking beach” crack seriously.

As concerns the controversial 1973 Roe decision, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg thought it was too far-reaching, sweeping and would produce discord for decades afterwards. She was right. I still cannot envision a national abortion law being passed at this time in our history. Is this just election year banter?

Concerning the slavery issue, the effort to stop slavery in our country — the attempt to abolish it— started decades earlier with the Christian Protestant “Great Awakening” in the mid-17th Century led by Jonathan Edwards, whose historic church in today’s very liberal Northampton still stands. The Quakers would also become supportive as it morphed from a religious to political issue.

In fact, almost all of New England had abolished slavery by 1804. The United States banned the import of slaves into our country in 1808. I am shocked Aronson appears to have no concept on what the 1820 Missouri Compromise was about, as, 30 years later it caused our horrid civil war.

Yes, slavery was ended on a national basis in 1865, a fact all educated people already know. The abolishment of slavery started in Northern Europe, England and the United States, it was not a worldwide movement.

Again, reference is made to the so-called 2025 Project, but no factual information is given on whether either Trump, his running mate or any active member of either congressional house have endorsed it.

I myself haven’t read and don’t give a damn about it.

In closing, I do like reading the opinions of the Taxpayers Union, Citizens Against Government Waste, Heritage Foundation and yes, I read the National Review and Wall Street Journal. I suppose next year, I will magically morph into a 1930s German Nazi.

In truth, I am neither blue nor red, I am purple as concerns each and every political issue.

Lou DeHolczer