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Letters to the Editor

Rooting out madness

To the Journal editor:

According to an article on the Yahoo News webpage (Jan. 2, 2019) a 15-year-old girl was arrested after her newborn baby was found dead in a North Philadelphia dumpster. Even the ultra-liberal Yahoo headlined the story with the label “Tragic.”

Now, in view of the fast-approaching anniversary of Roe v. Wade, I would like to point out the cognitive dissonance of a society that bemoans such a “tragedy” while, at the same time, protecting the moral, logical, and real equivalent of the offense as a woman’s “right” to choose the only differences being that it should have been done on the previous day and executed by a professional in such matters. And, oh yes, for a profit too.

By definition, cognitive dissonance is roughly described as the state of having inconsistent thoughts, beliefs, or attitudes, especially as relating to behavioral decisions and attitude change, and/or the mental distress arising from these contradictions of thought. Actually, any such feeling of distress would at least be a healthy sign of our ability to recognize our own intellectual hypocrisy. But such is the depth of our denial in America that we have ceased even to feel uncomfortable about the lies we live, but embrace them as “our own truth.”

In other news, it is reported that China has now followed suite with Japan in its worries about negative population growth. There are now more people dying there than are being born to replace them. All told, the U.N. estimates there are now 48 countries now in population decline.

Sound familiar, America? As schools close, malls are abandoned, and employers struggle to fill positions, how long will it be before our society collapses upon itself? And just what is going on in the liberal mind that believes in a world where every woman is finally freed from the “enslavement” of marriage and childbirth and empowered to pursue their new roles as self-fulfilled, butt-kicking societal ninjas? Just where do you think people come from, the stork? Even Evolution would call that a crazy scheme. And, by the way, good luck on getting your dog to pay your social security and visit you in the nursing home.

The real “tragedy” here is the depths of insanity to which our nation has fallen in its departure from belief in God and truth. Lacking these, there is no limit to our madness.

PAUL GROBAR

Marquette

Trump has not produced

To the Journal editor:

During the past two years of the Trump administration the voting public has been exposed to some of the most blatant abuses of power, mendacity and blatant bait and switch behavior that has ever characterized the presidency of these United States.

Most of us have by now reconciled with the crass, incompetent character who occupies what once was a respected and honorable seat in the White House. Through it all, Mr. Trump has managed to sidestep what under normal circumstances one would expect to be a tsunami of justified, targeted outrage from those who support him.

He has, after all, failed to deliver on many, if not most, of those promises he made to them during his campaign (where’s that “big, beautiful health care plan for everybody,” Mr. Trump? And what about those Lordstown, Ohio GM jobs moving to Mexico?). But how on earth can those disrespected True Believers who put their faith in this man’s words keep silent in the face of his latest iniquity namely, closing the government because he isn’t getting $5 billion from congressional Democrats to build his wall?

Surely, I am not the only one who remembers that he said time and again during the campaign that “Mexico will pay for it!” Now, and without a shred of compunction, humility or iota of explanation he insists that we, Mr. and Mrs taxpaying-public pay for it! Where is the outrage!?

How far into our eye must this pretender stick his dirty finger before we all scream, “enough already!”

BILL WATERS

Marquette

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