To the editor: I’m not a younger man and have voted in lots of presidential elections, typically Republican and typically Democrat. I’ve witnessed the far extremes of each events lose, and I really consider that almost all Individuals are middle-of-the-roaders like me. (“Signposts on the road to authoritarian rule,” Opinion, Feb. 10)
That mentioned, I’ve nice nervousness that our democracy is below menace.
A president can’t simply declare a part of a constitutional modification invalid. Enacted laws can’t simply be ignored. Immigration coverage and funds deficits are main points which have developed over years; they can’t be fastened in just a few weeks by firing authorities employees or deporting folks at will.
The Jan. 6, 2021, assault was actuality. Individuals at present serving in Congress have been trapped contained in the U.S. Capitol that day. Greater than 1,500 folks have been convicted by a jury of their friends or pleaded responsible in reference to the assault. And now we’re to consider that nobody did something fallacious. I can’t settle for that an assault on Congress is by some means OK.
It has been advised that the Republicans in energy worry retribution from President Trump. However we’re a democracy, and whereas they could have gained the election, they weren’t given limitless energy.
I’m at a loss to know why Republicans in the present day can’t keep in mind Abraham Lincoln’s phrases extolling “authorities of the folks, by the folks, for the folks” — and never simply the individuals who agree with Trump.
Walt Oliver, Santa Paula
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To the editor: Does UC Berkeley Faculty of Legislation Dean Erwin Chemerinsky consider that democracy in america will finish in the course of the subsequent 4 years?
Trump was elected to decelerate or halt the excesses of the earlier administration, to not set up authoritarian rule. If he goes too far, the folks will resist and vote in somebody with whom Chemerinsky agrees.
Robert S. Rodgers, Culver Metropolis
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To the editor: Oh, America, what have you ever finished? You’ve elected a malignant narcissist to be your president, and also you’re nicely in your approach to shedding your democracy.
In 1933, it took the newly put in Chancellor of Germany Adolf Hitler 53 days to remodel that nation’s democracy right into a dictatorship.
Too many individuals consider it will possibly’t occur right here. In Europe they didn’t consider it may occur there both. Then it did. My mother and father noticed the horror in Nazi-occupied Holland.
Our Structure can’t implement itself. Individuals of excellent character should uphold it within the face of leaders who ignore it, demand loyalty to themselves, give unlawful orders and fireplace watchdogs.
Listed below are some guidelines for resisting tyranny: Don’t obey prematurely, defend establishments, and be able to say “no” to unlawful orders. See the work of students Timothy Snyder and Ruth Ben-Ghiat, and skim the journalism of Masha Gessen.
Matty Park, Ventura
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To the editor: I recognize Chemerinsky’s clear itemization of Trump’s shredding of the U.S. Structure, however I consider he was too well mannered. Residents should awaken to our peril. Trump’s violation of the regulation has slid or will slide us into despotism.
All media should preserve reporting of the assaults on the Structure as their major responsibility. Studies on the within pages of newspapers should not enough.
Lloyd A. Dent, Northridge
