In Ginsburg’s wake, vote wisely
What is your COVID-19 plan?
To all the politicians who believe Gov. Tony Evers is “overreaching government” with the extended mask mandate, I have one question: What is your plan to conquer the COVID-19 virus?
To the sheriffs who refuse, or do not have time to enforce the mandate, what is your plan?
To the people who refuse to wear a mask, because “it is interfering with your constitutional rights” what is your plan? I am hearing a lot of excuses, but no constructive ideas on how we can lower the numbers in Wisconsin until a vaccine is available to all. So, what is your plan?
Michael Bauer
We lost our hero, we lost our moral compass. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg cannot be replaced (“Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies at 87,” Sept. 19).
Our best hope to honor the legacy of this extraordinary woman is to look within ourselves and own hearts to do what is right. The very least we can do to honor her is to cast our ballots to restore a sense of trust in our leaders, to affirm our desire to have a country that serves as a beacon of freedom and hope. To have leadership that lives up to the ideals of our Constitution.
Linda Eisele
Serving their party, not the nation
Regarding the confirmation of a new Supreme Court justice, if it weren’t so consequential, it would be a laughable display of monumental chutzpah.
Where does the Constitution say the Senate shall act on a nominee for the Supreme Court only when one party controls both the Senate and the Presidency? Nowhere (“Johnson backs filling court vacancy despite stand against it in 2016,” Sept. 20).
Sen. Ron Johnson, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and basically all politicians operate as if their oath of office requires them to serve and protect the political party to which they belong. And they do this with self-righteous certainty and conviction. For the average person, their puffery would be an embarrassing public display of hypocrisy shrouded in self-serving, silvertongued platitudes.
Will Holbrook
Milwaukee
Health care as a human right
I carefully read Daniel Sem’s article on health care delivery and that he believes there is a “Purple Solution” out there (“Coronavirus is breaking healthcare delivery, and that’s a good thing,” Sept. 20).
He covered embracing some parts of both parties’ platforms and also discussed ways governmental agencies could add to the solution. He suggested that powerful entities must be reined in order to improve health care delivery systems. He asserts that “Medicare for All and Repeal and Replace are not viable options” and that both parties need to “suck it up” and accept a compromise.
However, left out is a much-needed discussion about whether or not health care is a basic human right. This fundamental question, and our answer to it, continues to shape the prism through which citizens and politicians regard health care. Do we believe that there is a moral imperative in America to regard health care as a human right and that political and economic actions must follow? This vitally important discussion and subsequent agreement about health care rights must be the precursor to “purple solutions.” Without it, I do agree that the Medical Industrial Complex keeps winning and that millions of Americans continue to be on the losing end.
Shelley Craine
Milwaukee