Fact-based information appreciated
To the editor:
The March 28 edition of The Breeze was outstanding. It shed so much light on the failures of the current governments-federal, state and local-that it could be used in classrooms. From articles, editorial to opinion letters, fact-based information was provided to readers. It was a bracing antidote to the daily flood of gaslighting and sanewashing by conservative politicians who are trying to return to the 1950s (or earlier).
The space devoted to readers’ letters was particularly encouraging. Many writers were critical of the DOGE chainsaw approach to government reform by an inexperienced, ill-informed political contributor and his band of adolescent techies.
Fairness and balance dictated alternative views: one writer blamed our national debt on the “civil service,” characterizing it as a “DEI union-protected system… created by progressive Democrats.” Another writer who has often contributed in the past, including advice to transplants from blue states to keep their “progressive” ideas out of the “free state of Florida,” seemed to have become reasonable, asking for “meaningful and respectful” conversations in the Trump 2.0 era. He even used one of my favorite quotations: “You are entitled to your own opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.”
I thought that writer had an epiphany, like many former Trumpers who have buyer’s remorse, until I noticed, “…the viciousness, especially progressive[s]…” Apparently this writer has forgotten all the years of name calling and character assassination by Trump of anyone (including judges) who dares to disagree or criticize him, encouraging violence by his supporters.
Civil discourse would be more likely if it were modeled by the current leader of our country.
Sam Herman
New York