To the Editor:
In “Combating Trump, Some Voters Are ‘Burned Out on Outrage’” (entrance web page, Feb. 20), you declare that Democrats and nonpartisan teams that work to protect democracy in America are uninterested in combating.
That’s not what I see. I see deepening experience, increasing networks and steely resolve. Organizations like mine that have been created by amateurs intent on doing what they might to avoid wasting democratic establishments at the moment are seasoned and onerous at work. And there are a variety of us.
Don’t write us off.
Claire Ullman
New York
The author is co-founder and co-director of College students for Voting Justice, based in 2020 to contain faculty college students in getting out the vote in communities of shade within the South.
To the Editor:
My humble suggestion to these exhausted from their efforts in opposing Donald Trump and now probably even apathetic: Please keep in mind Gen. George Washington and his struggling troops through the Revolutionary Warfare, the suffragists and the civil rights motion. Thank heavens none of those atypical People gave in to what should have been their very own deep psychological, bodily and monetary exhaustion, first to win independence after which to maintain increasing our democracy.
Given latest occasions, please suppose, too, of Aleksei Navalny and his willpower to maintain urgent for a democratic Russia by way of these lengthy years of psychological and bodily torture, solely to finish along with his homicide.
Donald Trump has made this our personal second to step ahead to work to avoid wasting our personal democracy. We will’t let down all those that got here earlier than us who created the rights we take pleasure in immediately by letting Mr. Trump have his means in destroying our values and our society.
Mary C. Helf
Flourtown, Pa.
To the Editor:
“Some voters” can not afford to be burned out on outrage in the event that they need to hold their democracy. I’m as exhausted by Donald Trump as each different sane American, however I do know rattling effectively that if he turns into president once more, our democracy might be destroyed.
It’s as stark and easy as this slight variation on New Hampshire’s license plate: Vote for the candidate who needs you to stay free or your democracy will die.
Robyn Ultan
Lawrenceville, N.J.
Alito’s Grievance
To the Editor:
Re “Alito Renews Criticism of Resolution on Identical-Intercourse Marriage” (information article, Feb. 21):
I don’t know that Justice Samuel Alito’s criticism that individuals who oppose homosexuality threat being unfairly “labeled as bigots” is kind of proper. On condition that opposing homosexuality is equal to opposing blue eyes, the extra probably threat is being labeled ignorant.
Cynthia G. Hicks
San Leandro, Calif.
To the Editor:
The legal guidelines that govern the city sq. in American society have all the time been secular. To vary that may diminish our democracy by weakening the separation between church and state. Does Justice Samuel Alito actually not perceive that?
Rebecca A. Miles
St. Augustine, Fla.
Avoiding Hurt to Wildlife
To the Editor:
Re “The Planet Wants Photo voltaic Energy. Can We Construct It With out Harming Nature?” (nytimes.com, Feb. 11):
If we’re to responsibly attain our clear power objectives, conservation organizations and builders should work in partnership with communities and different stakeholders to make sure that initiatives keep away from hurt to wildlife.
Local weather change is now one of many biggest threats to biodiversity, with two-thirds of North American hen species prone to extinction as a result of our warming planet. We threat dropping billions of birds if international temperature rise continues unabated, which is why the Nationwide Audubon Society advocates well-sited and well-operated wind, photo voltaic and transmission infrastructure.
Because of a well-established and strong scientific information base and ongoing analysis and growth of latest applied sciences, there are various methods to scale back dangers to wildlife and implement bird-friendly options. These embody avoiding high-impact habitats, maximizing growth in beforehand disturbed areas, and upgrading current transmission traces or increasing inside current rights of means.
There is no such thing as a such factor as impact-free power growth, however initiatives can responsibly keep away from, decrease or offset impacts. Collectively, we will make choices that assist construct a cleaner, more healthy future for wildlife and folks.
Garry George
Los Angeles
The author is senior director, local weather technique, for the Nationwide Audubon Society.
Favoring ‘Privilege Over Potential’ at Elite Faculties
To the Editor:
Re “Why the Requirement for SAT or ACT Scores Returned to Dartmouth,” by David Leonhardt (The Morning, Feb. 6):
Dartmouth is appropriate that when once more requiring the SAT will establish a couple of extra low-income college students who can succeed there. However it’s unlikely to yield greater than a marginal change in earnings distribution.
For many years elite faculties have sought to extend entry for low-income college students, but their admission processes proceed to generate overwhelmingly rich scholar our bodies. The reason being easy: Their definition of “ready for fulfillment” is indistinguishable from “profile of a wealthy scholar” and can all the time favor privilege over potential.
In the end, it isn’t the take a look at, or extracurriculars or details about faculty that limits the variety of low-income and BIPOC college students; the issue is how we outline who deserves entry to elite faculties’ immense assets.
Any establishment severe about diversifying entry ought to look to high schools like Millsaps, Hampshire, Salem and Beloit, which characterize an array of selective, student-centered establishments which have seen double-digit will increase in Pell-eligible college students over the past decade. With restricted assets, these faculties have diversified their financial make-up, taking significant steps to create broader alternatives for future leaders.
Rich establishments, like Dartmouth, would do effectively to undertake and implement their approaches if they’re severe about bringing extra earnings variety to their scholar our bodies.
Ed Wingenbach
Amherst, Mass.
The author is president of Hampshire School.
Order within the Home
To the Editor:
It appears to be a reality universally acknowledged that the Home is dysfunctional — however there’s a resolution.
Think about that these Republican members from districts that Joe Biden carried have been to announce that they thought of themselves to be unbiased — unable to stay in a MAGA Republican Celebration and unwilling to signal on to the Democratic agenda. As a gaggle they might trigger the election of a speaker who would agree to allow laws they favor to return to a vote.
They might be in the identical place of management because the far-right caucus, however their management could be over your complete physique versus one social gathering. And with that management they might trigger compromise payments to go ahead and Congress would work once more.
Additional, given the composition of their districts it’s probably their actions could be supported and they’d undergo no private penalty.
John Stockton
Harrison, N.Y.
