Letters to the Editor | Oct. 26, 2023
Inquirer readers on the Phillies building a winning team, who won the 2020 election, and what it means to say MAGA.
Skills-based
The Phillies have a nucleus of a team that could develop a World Series winner in a couple of years. They have power hitters that can score solo home runs, and they have good defensive players. Now the team must concentrate on developing the skills that overcome normal defensive play: hitting the ball well, getting runners on base with no outs, moving those runners into scoring positions, and scoring those runners. Skills like stealing second base to nullify the double play and move into scoring position, and sacrifice flies and bunts that move runners up. Solo home runs are neat, but base runners make winners with or without home runs.
Wayne Williams, Malvern
Perfect plan
So, the House of Representatives can’t function because there is no speaker. This has been these Republicans’ goal all along: to destroy the government’s ability to operate, which is basically to destroy the government. Their goal is to remove the regulations and safety nets that protect the average American from unfettered capitalism. This is basically a nonviolent version of Jan. 6, 2021. Who needs an insurrection to succeed when you can close government by doing nothing?
Linda Falcao, North Wales, lindafalcao@gmail.com
Keep it real
It amazes me that we have existing and prospective elected officials who have trouble unequivocally acknowledging that Joe Biden won the 2020 election. I think that anyone who cannot easily answer the question, “Who won the 2020 presidential election?” should be automatically disqualified from holding office for two reasons: First, the inability to recognize reality. If you cannot tell what is real and what is not, you need serious help. Second, denying the results of the 2020 election proves that someone is very easily influenced by propaganda and conspiracy theories. How could we trust anyone so gullible to be in a position of power?
Stefan Keller, Huntingdon Valley
When?
I’d really like to know: What period is MAGA (Make America Great Again) referring to? Is it when the brutality of slavery was legal? Is it when women were denied the right to vote? Is it when “separate but equal” was the law of the land, denying certain people the right to a proper education? Was it when all abortion was illegal? Or is it today, when the president of my precious alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania (College for Women ‘62, Law ‘65), allows racist/antisemitic speakers on campus and hasn’t the leadership to condemn the slaughter of babies by Hamas? When, actually, was America great?
Lita Indzel Cohen, retired member, Pennsylvania House of Representatives, Philadelphia
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