To the Editor:
Re “It’s Not the Hypocrisy. It’s the Stupidity,” by Hillary Clinton (Opinion visitor essay, March 30):
Mrs. Clinton’s dismay on the Trump administration’s panoply of “dumb” actions is justified and comprehensible. However this raises the uncomfortable query of whether or not there may be an underlying function.
These aren’t random acts of stupidity. They’re linked by an obvious intent to destroy the elemental establishments and values which have outlined us as distinctive. America’s greatness stems from the power of our ethical, cultural and financial management, which these dumb actions systematically undermine.
It’s not clear whose pursuits are being served right here, nevertheless it’s actually not America’s. That is merely deplorable.
Steven J. Scheinman
Skaneateles, N.Y.
To the Editor:
I learn Hillary Clinton’s essay, and to me it encompasses our present predicament.
To preface my argument, let me say that I baked a Hillary Clinton emblem cake on Election Day in 2016, an evening that ended with me and each politically lively Democratic lady I do know crying ourselves to sleep. I supported Hillary. As a toddler of the 80s, I’ve seemed as much as her virtually my whole life.
However this essay is a disappointment. Whereas it echoes emotions many people have, it proposes no concrete options, gives no motion steps. It’s a microcosm of the Democratic response throughout the board to the atrocities of this administration.
Statements of anger aren’t sufficient, particularly not from those that have a lot affect. There are such a lot of of us out right here determined for management, begging for course and wanting to assist cease a few of these horrors from taking place.
However what can any of us do? Every single day we see regulation companies, judges and universities all cower and provides in to those energy grabs. And a outstanding member of the opposing occasion merely gives, as the net headline of her essay put it, “How A lot Dumber Will This Get?”
The reply might be lots. However it shouldn’t need to. We simply want a pacesetter who may also help us set up and put all that anger into motion.
Paige Cram
Burbank, Calif.
To the Editor:
I write this with a lot admiration for Hillary Clinton, who did an expert job representing U.S. pursuits overseas as secretary of state. Nevertheless, given the unlucky circumstances of her “deplorables” remark throughout the 2016 election marketing campaign, the repeated use of the time period “dumb” in her Opinion piece reduces the affect of her considerate article.
In these instances of excessive polarization and sophistication sensitivity, some extra descriptive adjectives might have been used with better impact.
Peter Holewinski
Healdsburg, Calif.
Autism Is Not a Illness
To the Editor:
Re “Sorry, Kennedy, There Is No Autism Thriller,” by Holden Thorp (Opinion visitor essay, March 27):
The Autism Society of America stands in solidarity with the creator’s highly effective message relating to the damaging nature of autism misinformation.
The Trump administration’s latest “Make America Wholesome Once more” marketing campaign, which frames autism inside the context of power illness, is deceptive and dangerous. Autism shouldn’t be a illness, however a neurodevelopmental incapacity that requires better acceptance, analysis and assist.
Nationwide incapacity teams are aligned: Funding shouldn’t be wasted revisiting disproved vaccine theories. It needs to be invested in analysis that may enhance long-term outcomes and make clear the genetic and environmental components that contribute to autism.
You will need to acknowledge that the rise in autism prevalence is essentially due to advances in screening, diagnostic standards and consciousness — not unverifiable conspiracies.
Christopher Banks
Rockville, Md.
The author is the president and chief govt of the Autism Society of America.
A Path of Destruction
To the Editor:
For almost 250 years, America had been the shining metropolis on a hill. It took Donald Trump solely a short while to snuff it out, destroying every part Individuals had labored, lived and died for in order that the sunshine might shine even brighter for future generations.
And to suppose, a loud minority of Individuals invited this destruction to occur, all as a result of they have been promised that undocumented immigrants could be despatched again and cheaper eggs could be on their desk.
Mr. Trump has now been topped because the one to rule all of them. I miss the sunshine already.
Bob Bascelli
Seaford N.Y.
