Happy 250th to the USA: Letters – Latest News
The Issue: America’s independence and astonishing historical past because it marks its 250th anniversary.
It’s been 250 years since the Declaration of Independence was signed, and a new nation was born in the title of freedom and liberty (“Founding Faith,” Brian Kilmeade, PostOpinion, July 1).
Since then, each era has stepped up to defend that freedom. Let’s take a second to honor those that made the final sacrifice so we might reside free. Happy 250th, America!
Paul Bacon
Hallandale Beach, Fla.
In 1776, towards overwhelming odds, a assortment of 13 small colonies declared independence, difficult the strongest empire on Earth and by some means prevailing.
The best American achievement was not the airplane, the moon touchdown, the web and even the unprecedented prosperity that adopted. It was the radical concept that peculiar people might govern themselves.
No nation is ideal, together with America. But the genius of the American experiment has by no means been perfection. It has been the freedom to acknowledge our failures, right our course and keep transferring ahead.
Alan Webber
Cave Creek, Ariz.
Our forefathers set up our republic with much less authorities control and decrease taxes. They actually didn’t have socialism in thoughts.
Tom Scott
Spotswood, NJ
I’ve been wanting ahead to our nation’s 250th anniversary, and as a Vietnam War veteran, I’ve a severe disdain for the new socialist and communist left that has taken over the Democratic Party.
It’s time the Republicans use the law to instantly take away the toxic ideology that plagues our society.
Gregory Topliff
Aiken, SC
It’s a outstanding incontrovertible fact that we exist as a nation that’s obedient to a constitutional authorities, on condition that it was born from insurrection.
Today, many of us query whether or not we have now the proper stuff to make this experiment in democracy proceed for an additional 250 years.
What qualities inside us have helped us soldier on with the great American experiment in democracy, regardless of all our doubts? Perhaps, simply asking ourselves this query is one factor that helps our democracy endure in instances of hazard.
Claude Borowsky
Southampton, Mass.
The Issue: The Supreme Court’s ruling that states can rely mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day.
The Supreme Court ruled that state legal guidelines that permit ballots to arrive after Election Day are legal (“SCOTUS mails it in for Dems,” June 30).
The 4 dissenting justices had no actual legal argument to back their conclusions. They argued it was a coverage resolution. It just isn’t their job to make coverage choices. Did they pledge allegiance to the president or the Constitution? Their credibility is rightly in query.
Bob Bascelli
Seaford
The Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of accepting mail-in ballots after Election Day speaks immediately to voter fraud, a prime precedence for President Trump and his loyalists.
This ruling additionally exposes the Republican-sponsored SAVE America Act, touted as a defend for voter integrity, as a ruse. Voter fraud has but to emerge as the central rallying cry for Democrats, but when the basic proper of democracy is to survive, then affordability and health care should lose their spots as the main Democratic points. The true goal of the SAVE Act is tightening Trump’s stronghold over the poll box to maintain his maintain on energy.
Trump understands that a flipped Congress will successfully neuter his presidency. Halting the debasement of presidential norms and the dismantling of the Constitution will guarantee accountability and the survival of the republic.
Jim Paladino
Tampa, Fla.
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