Letters to the editor: Idaho delegation, NFL players, state of the nation

Idaho delegation-Trump

I’m finding it very hard to accept our Idaho delegation’s complete acceptance of President Trump’s attack on pretty much everything our country ever stood for. Attacks on the free press, silence. Attacks on people’s religious liberties, silence. Ignoring the emoluments clause, silence. Putting immigrant children in cages, silence. Some may never be reunited with their parents. How would you feel about that happening to you? Attacking any and all government entities he believes are challenging his “supreme leadership.” My quote marks, your silence. Hey, how about his lying on a daily basis, his attacks on our allies, his cheating on his wife and covering it up, his buddying up to white nationalists? Mega-silence. Oh yeah, he deliberately chose cabinet members who were unqualified for their jobs to try and destroy our central government. You were all good with that apparently. Proud and silent. Just who is pulling your strings? Fifty four years between you. I doubt any of you has voted your conscience in, oh who am I kidding, ever. It’s sad really that ultimately you are all on the wrong side of history. But hey, silence is golden.

NFL players

Regarding the open letter to NFL players that the boycott is coming.

I’ll be glad to walk into the venues empty of you crybabies. Have you nothing better to do, you hypocrites? Maybe use the time away from football to help the less fortunate. I realize you have been sold a bill of goods and you equate patriotism with militarism. I salute the patriotism of teachers, counselors, coaches, et. al., who use their skill and commitment to mold decent citizens. You say you defend the players’ right to free speech yet you threaten their livelihoods, reputations, families, etc. What happened to the sentiment about disagreeing with someone’s views but defending to the death their right to state those views?

Your argument is like any over-generalization, which makes a general statement about a group that is so broad as to be ridiculous. Usually it is based on some truth about a subgroup, but it is generalized and applied to the whole.

I’m throwing a flag on you so-called boycotters for presenting an illogical argument.

State of the nation

In the wee hours of another D.C. morning, a tap, tapping emanates from a darkened bunker beneath the White House as Gaulieter Stephen Miller ghostwrites another chapter of “Mein Trumph.” He uses an old IBM Selectric to avoid hackers.

Six stories above, in the residence, an enraged Donald, air-raid sirens howling in his head, reels from room to room cursing the perpetrators of his latest perceived slight. At last he locks himself in the throne room to Twitter out his latest spasm of trouser arson.

Leaders of the GOP meet in the fiddle turning annex to rehearse their anthem “Party, party, uber alles.”

Shabbily clad Democrats wander the halls of Congress muttering “The country ... the country ... the country ....”

A world away in the Kremlin tower, the latest meeting of the “He-man woman hater dictators club” breaks up. Putin’s piggy little eyes krinkle as he smiles. He rises, and with his rolling drunken sailor’s strut (in Moscow they call that walkin’) leaves Kim-Jong-Un languorously stroking his Chinese cat.

The public kneels around their TVs, entranced by the latest episode of “Surviving Bachelors Dance-Off.”

God is too distracted by internet conspiracy theories to help us. Do we deserve saving?