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Shaun McCutcheon’s opinion piece on Trump in Monday’s edition (“Picking a president: Trump is best for economy, border, peace, free speech,” Oct. 21) was the perfect example of twisting the facts to make Donald Trump sound like a person of humanity, integrity and intelligence. McCutcheon says that Trump will be good for the economy based on the premise and falsehood that he is a great businessman.
If you look up the facts, his business acumen does not accurately reflect this assertion. At best, Trump is a reality TV star who inherited most of his wealth and left a trail of bankrupted and fraudulent business ventures in his wake. McCutcheon’s second reason for supporting Trump is that he “has a track record of providing peace through strength.
” I think that we all remember Jan. 6, 2021. Is that the kind of peace he will provide for us as a nation? People are also reading.
.. Finally, McCutcheon argues that Trump will be a purveyor of free speech.
Does he mean the kind of free speech that bans books and prevents the LGBTQ community from being who they are, or does he mean the right to speak out against people of color by using racial slurs and threatening language like he and so many of his supporters have done? In recent speeches Trump implies that he will use the military against anyone who opposes him. Is that the kind of free speech he’s talking about? Sounds more like a dictatorship to me. Policies aside, shouldn’t a president be someone who represents honesty, respect and dignity and someone we can hold up as an example to our kids on how to treat others? Donald Trump is an example of just the opposite.
Bill Smith Winston-Salem As I gathered my thoughts for a last letter on the presidential election this year, I decided that two quotes summed up the thoughts I want to share with the readers of the Journal. A friend wrote me that “Trump is an obscenity. And yet, half the country worships him.
Why? An MSNBC columnist answered that question for me recently, and it’s a sad truth. When Trump speaks Nazi rhetoric at his rallies, the crowd ‘laps it up,’ the columnist wrote, rather than being repulsed as they would have been in times past. And the reason, he said, is that the country has changed.
Half of the American people have changed. They’ve become like Germany of the 1930s, and they’re not going back to the way they once were. Without a wrenching twist in the social fabric, the country will continue on this divided path long after Trump has left the scene.
I weep for my country.” The second quote is from an interview with Gen. Mark Milley during the time he served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 2019 until 2023.
Gen. Milley told Bob Woodward of The Washington Post: “No one has ever been as dangerous to this country as Donald Trump. Now I realize he’s a total fascist.
He is the most dangerous person to this country.” Harry Weiler Winston-Salem All the races in this year’s election are important, but the county Board of Commissioners races are arguably the ones most likely to affect our daily lives as we live, work, play and do business in Forsyth County. Last week’s news article on the Board of Commissioners candidate Forum at Reynolds High School cited Valerie Brockenbrough as the candidate who “provided some of the only specific policy moves in the forum.
” Valerie has done her homework, both as a candidate and as a longtime advocate for public schools, Piedmont Environmental Alliance board member and small-business owner. Her new ideas for supporting our schools and emergency services are borne out of years of experience. As a county commissioner, Valerie Brockenbrough will work tirelessly to implement her specific, clear-eyed vision for improving the quality of life for all the Forsyth County residents.
She has my vote; I hope she’ll have yours. W. Stephen Wells Winston-Salem Regarding “a proposal to increase the charge to park on downtown Winston-Salem streets and regulate parking with a smartphone app.
”: I guess the phone I have would do that, but I haven’t the first idea how. And not everyone has a smartphone. Apparently, I and other old people will just have to stay out of downtown Winston-Salem.
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