LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Caring and compromise should still be conservative values
I consider myself conservative, but what is being called “conservative” in our country is not working to conserve our country.
To conserve means to preserve and protect. It is conservative to want to preserve and protect our country from threats, both from without and within.
Intentionally dividing us from each other, turning us against each other, is not conservative. When did conservatism stop valuing character, compassion and competence?
I know that I can be as hypocritical as the next guy, but I don’t have to accept what I know are lies, and I don’t have to lie to myself about what is happening to our country.
Conditions may get much worse in the coming weeks, months and years. We will need to be able and willing to work together to heal our country and our economy.
Healing takes time, but we have to be allowed to start, which means changing directions. Choose leaders and representatives from either party who are willing to lead and take responsibility, rather than those who thrive on division and distraction.
Cooperation, compromise and caring for each other are conservative values.
I’m proudly conservative. I hope what that word means can be reclaimed in time.
Mark McKinney, Mesa
Wait a second. You found leadership? Where was it hiding?
While digesting Thursday’s Opinions page, I came across letter writer Jim Barber’s submittal: “No one will say it, but in a crisis there are acceptable losses.”
Other than taking a swipe at E.J. Montini in his very first sentence, his next few paragraphs made for a certain amount of common sense. That was lost in the laundry with his second and third-to-last paragraph.
First he opined that the health of the president and vice president are paramount in such times as now. In a general sense I get that. It was the next set of words that made my hair stand on end.
The country cannot suffer a loss of its leadership in the middle of this crisis. Only two words come to mind from my noggin: What leadership?
People won’t let authorities crush our civil liberties
When the American people were asked on March 15 to stay at home and close all businesses, they should have said, “Hell no!”
But when the media-government saw that people were actually willing to do it, they said, “Ah ha! We can do it!”
So two weeks became two months. Now it is “until we find a cure.”
The American people should have said from the very start, “To hell with you. We are not staying home or closing our businesses.”
The crushing of civil liberties by the media-government will never happen again, regardless of what may come in the future.
Gordon Brown,
Phoenix
Some governors are eroding the freedoms of their people
If I ever want to see what America would look like if Democrats got total control I merely have to watch what Democrat governors are doing.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer says you cannot paint your house, go to your lake cabin or plant seeds in your garden. In her state.
Illinois Gov. J. B. Pritzker says you can’t have more than two in a boat.
Numerous stories of overreaching governors and whether you agree with them or not your freedom is slowly eroding away.
Robert Archer, Scottsdale
Democrats trying to eliminate a certain GOP candidate
The media and their Democratic donors are willing to kill the economy and 350 million Americans just to get rid of one person. Guess who that one person is?
Gary Beck, Phoenix
We’ve only just begun to fight battle against novel coronavirus
The end of the “stay at home” order is not the end of the battling the virus. “It is not even the beginning of the end. But, it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning,” to quote Winston Churchill early in World War II.
Businesses and customers alike must equally embrace the duty to care for each other.
Dorde Cedic, Sedona