Selfish, ego-centric philosophy

To the Editor:

We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Nope. No longer. Now it reads: I, the person in the Dis-united States, in order to destroy what was once an effort toward an almost-perfect union, establish justice for me alone, ensure domestic chaos, provide for only my defense, promote only my welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty for me and screw the rest of you, do spit on everything that the Constitution of the United States of America was established to create.

This is what the 250 or so protesters at Courthouse Square, and millions more around the country were so proudly proclaiming last weekend. Oh sure, they wave a flag and make noises like “Americans,” but what they and their fellow travelers are saying is that this country isn't a place for all of us together. It's just for “me.” My right to infect you is more important than your right to breathe — or even live.

It's my unfettered right to have as many guns as I want, even though 32,232 Americans have been killed by guns this year (as of 9/21/2021 — more by now). Those dead people don't have rights because they're not me.

Only my vote counts because you voted for the wrong guy. There must be fraud, right?

There have been moments when this country was actually trying to live up to the name United States. We are tumbling toward anarchy because of this selfish, ego-centric philosophy that says, “only I matter.” We are in deep trouble.

Gary Sipperley

Twain Harte