If the “religious right” and the others who go to President Donald Trump’s rallies opened their eyes and stopped getting their news from Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, fake Fox News, the president and those in Congress, then they might find out what’s really happening in this country.
Oh, incidentally, Jesus spread love, kindness, forgiveness and all that is good. The Republican hatemongers are spreading evil, hate, division, bigotry, lying, greed and immorality, and encouraging Trump and the Republicans in Congress to treat our Constitution and our country in a heinous way.
The problem with the Republicans is that each group thinks they are better and more deserving than the rest of us: the rich because they are rich; the “religious right” because they think they are the best Christians; the rally-goers because of ignorance. They, like the rest of the Republicans, willingly listen to the hatemongers who are endlessly telling them that they are better than those stupid Democrats, condemning anyone who disagrees. For example, the supporters of the president agree with him about everything, including that the Democrats want weak borders. All wrong.
What the Republicans have done to our country is beyond comprehension. George Washington’s farewell speech warned that we must never let down our guard because there will come a time when our Constitution and country are threatened — as it is now. By demonizing the press, the Justice Department, the FBI and all the groups that keep us safe, the traitor in office has made our country far, far less safe. What is even more disgusting is that the latest polls show that 80 percent of Republicans still support their party staying in office. However, 60 percent of the total population will not let them get away with it anymore.
Jim Daigle
Plainfield
I do earnestly hope our city fathers and mothers will do more than mull what Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center’s proposed expansion, and their reaction to it, mean for the ultimate health of our region (“Officials Mull DHMC Plan, City Services,” Dec. 10).
The ever-so-brief mention of how we managed to acquire our public transit system — which would be a credit to any 19th-century community — reminds me yet again that one of Advance Transit’s wonders is to serve as our very own Tardis time machine, bending time and space so that a ride on the Red Line from City Hall to the plazas is just like a tour of Bronte country. You know — the face of privation in a cold, damp climate.
Life means growth, and growth means expanded demand for essential services, and essential services cost money. So we’d better start figuring out how to devise a broader revenue stream that can support smart development that leaves no one behind, or struggling not to drown.
We need a lot more genuinely affordable housing and expanded social services, ideally reaching the citizenry before they’re born, a public transportation system at least as good as urban areas had in the 1950s, and a recognition by the venerable long-term residents of Lebanon that their hopes of a dignified old age may lie in the ability of young service workers to live here in comfort and dignity, as well as higher-earning professionals.
In any century, one adage remains true: You most often get what you pay for. Let’s not shortchange anyone because we’re reluctant to pay what we ought to.
Sarah Crysl Akhtar
Lebanon
I am responding to the opinion column by Mariel Garza of the Los Angeles Times (“Voter Fraud Panel Barked Up Wrong Tree,” Dec. 15). The voter fraud panel was put into action by President Donald Trump. New Hampshire’s newly re-elected secretary of state, Bill Gardner, walked into his trap.
Women who endorsed Gardner’s move erred. Women are multitaskers whose time for many responsibilities has critical value: from protection of the homestead and their families to political action. Women citizens have followed the wrong objective through giving credence to the self-aggrandizement of Trump.
In January we await the third anniversary of the Women’s March for Action and Unity. I was there in Concord for the first one with 5,000 who attended and say my time and political dedication were well-spent. At 95, and having a lifetime of multitasking, I waste no time searching for fraud by the dictator in the Oval Office. The Women’s March happened planetwide.
Linn D. Harwell
Perkinsville