Letters to the Editor | Oct. 22, 2024

Your front-page photo failed to say that the McDonald’s Donald Trump “worked” at was closed to the public. The Inquirer should stick to covering Trump’s dangerous ideas more than his publicity stunts.

Michael Robinson, South Jersey

I am writing to express my deep frustration and concern regarding the 2024 presidential election. As a U.S. military veteran who served during the Vietnam War era, I find it incomprehensible that our nation would allow Donald Trump, a man convicted of various crimes, to run for the highest office in the land. How is it possible that a man charged with undermining the very democratic processes our government is built upon is permitted to present himself as a candidate for president? This is not a normal election, yet it is being treated as such by the media and the American public. It is entirely absurd that we are even having this discussion. A person who has shown such blatant disregard for the law and for the principles of democracy should not be allowed anywhere near the Oval Office. The federal government and the American people should not stand idly by and allow this to happen. The election process is supposed to reflect the best of who we are as a nation, not legitimize those who would seek to undermine it.

H. James Hulton III, North Wales

Donald Trump’s answer to abortion is to let the states decide. But states don’t have babies, people do. Most voters assumed Trump was against a woman’s right to choose since he made overturning Roe v. Wade such a centerpiece of his campaign. But then he stopped short when he failed to support a nationwide abortion ban. The reason was strictly political. A way to make as many states happy as he could in the hope of winning their electoral votes in November. Red states would ban abortion, blue states would allow it, and everyone would be happy.

But nobody should be happy. If you are antiabortion, how can you support abortion in any state? If you are pro-choice, then how can you be happy about women having fewer rights in some states than others? The last time states decided on such basic human rights there was a civil war. Women and couples deserve the same access to health care and reproductive options like in vitro fertilization (IVF) in every state. Anything less is unjust and inhumane. People are people everywhere.

Randall Rousselo, Roscommon, Mich.

Apparently, many Americans are ignoring what Donald Trump instigated on Jan. 6, 2021, instead focusing on the economy and immigration. However, if they took the time to do some fact-finding, they would learn that those issues are reasons why they should vote for Kamala Harris. On the economy, the stock market is at a record high because Joe Biden’s policies allowed us to avoid a recession after the pandemic. The same pandemic caused a great deal of inflation, and Biden has worked hard to reduce it from 8% in 2022 to an average annual rate of 2.4% in September of this year. Biden’s policies have also resulted in us having more manufacturing jobs today than under Trump.

Regarding immigration at our southern border, keep in mind that we have laws pertaining to asylum, and our Statue of Liberty symbolizes America being a place for individuals needing a safe place to live. America is a nation built on laws, and we cannot allow a white supremacist like Trump to target immigrants to help himself get elected. We should accept people of color in a similar manner that our country accepted immigrants from Europe in the past.

Joe Czarnecki, Dallas, Pa.

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