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CAN’T WE ALL JUST GET
ALONG?
“Don’t wear that hat,” my
husband said.
We were headed to our country
club to play a few rounds of golf.
I had selected a red golf cap
emblazoned with the white slogan
Make America Great Again.
“Too controversial?” I asked.
“We don’t need to make any
enemies there,” he replied.
It seemed ridiculous to worry
about my hat creating enemies,
but I switched hats anyway, and instead sported an inoffensive
yellow cap with the club’s name and logo.
Make America Great Again, the rallying cry of our current
beleaguered president. Pity and fear for the safety of any who
wishes to support him and his agenda. Tolerance has seemingly
evaporated, and in its place a cheering squad, advocating
hatred toward any who back the president and his policies, has
formed.
The venom exhibited by the anti-Trump movement parallels
any anti-Semitic or Neo-Nazi fervor. It harkens back to the
extremism of the McCarthy era, when those suspected of
communist tendencies were blacklisted from their places of
work.
As an American Jew who grew up in the ’70s, this bothers
me more than a little. There are two sides to every coin, and
the black and white, no-room-for-discussion stance currently
held by those on the left exactly embodies the intolerance and
prejudice of which the left accuses the right, a pathetic irony
indeed.
- CAROL DEBRA LEFKOWITZ JONES
VIA EMAIL
FEELING BETTER
World Day for Farm
Animals on Oct. 2 (Gandhi’s
birth date) is intended to
memorialize the billions of
animals abused and killed for
food each year.
Like many others, I always
thought of farm animals as
“food on the hoof.” But, after
watching the deeply moving
feature film “Okja” on Netflix,
I realized that a farm animal
is much like our family dog,
fully deserving of compassion
and respect.
An Internet search showed
me that farm animals get
neither on today’s factory
farms. Male baby chicks are
suffocated in plastic garbage
bags or ground up alive.
Laying hens are crowded into
small wire cages that tear out
their feathers. Breeding sows
spend their lives pregnant
in metal cages. Dairy cow
babies are snatched from their
mothers upon birth so we can
drink their milk.
The cruelties inherent in
factory farming drove me to
replace animal products in my
diet with a rich variety of plantbased
meats and dairy items
offered by my supermarket.
I have since learned that my
cruelty-free diet is also great for
my health and for the health of
our planet.
- PHIL GARGALIS
PASADENA
PRESIDENT’S LEAGUE
The recent funeral of Sen.
John McCain seemed like one
for a president.
That’s because we don’t
have one.
In the face of the spineless
paralysis of the Republicans
in Congress who are afraid to
do anything about getting rid
of this, one of the best ideas
I’ve heard yet is for all five
former presidents to combine
as an irresistible force to put
pressure on the congressional
Republicans to remove
Donald Trump from office.
In concert with Special
Counsel Robert Mueller’s
telling Trump that unless he
resigns his son will go to jail,
these two events might do the
trick.
- CLIVE LEEMAN
VIA EMAIL
FROM THE WEB:
RE: “BAD NEWS FOR
DEMS,” AUG. 30
LOL. Did you actually
read what you wrote? Take,
for instance, “He touched a
tiny nerve with his claims
that poor, underserved black
neighborhoods are supposedly
a mess with lousy public
schools, high crime and
violence, and chronic poverty.
And he dumped the blame for
that squarely on the Democrats
who have run most of these
cities for decades.” I suppose
you feel that the Republicans
caused this issue in Los
Angeles County/City, NYC and
Chicago? Try a little truth in the
story you are trying to serve.
- JOHN IN PASADENA
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