To the Editor:
Affordable People, the place are you? The place is your protest? The place is your voice?
For many years, your nation has known as itself “the chief of the free world.” That title carries duty — not simply to yourselves, but additionally to all of us who rely upon a powerful, steady and principled America.
But as your nation turns inward, as fact is twisted, allies are deserted and authoritarianism beneficial properties floor, we hear too little from you — those who should be watching in dismay.
Certainly you might be on the market. Certainly you see the injury being achieved. However silence is complicity. In case you nonetheless consider in democracy, decency and international management, now’s the time to behave. Converse up. Manage. Protest. Vote. Present the world that America’s cheap majority nonetheless exists — and that it nonetheless cares.
As a result of historical past is watching. And so is the world.
Floris Moojen
Amsterdam
To the Editor:
A message to our associates in different nations:
America continues to be right here. We’re beat down, however we aren’t crushed. We’re scarred, however we aren’t scared.
We’ll survive, however not with out penalties. Kids will die of vaccine-preventable illnesses. We grieve for them, for his or her households and for the lives they might have led, the contributions they might have made.
We nonetheless care about you, our associates. We care about whether or not kids in sub-Saharan Africa have entry to lifesaving drugs. We care in regards to the folks of Ukraine and the three lengthy years of undeserved hell you may have endured.
We care about scientific discovery. Not for its personal sake, though data is all the time higher than ignorance. We care as a result of data builds upon data, which results in cures for most cancers and to enhancements in public well being, which assist us all.
It could be exhausting to see us proper now. Squint should you should. However we’re nonetheless right here.
Thomas G. Boyce
Marshfield, Wis.
The author is a pediatric infectious illness specialist.
To the Editor:
The USA has had 236 years of democracy. Our Structure grew to become an instance to the world of how you can create a authorities.
This helped us preserve a system of checks and balances, create a good judicial system and assure our freedoms. Our steady authorities helped us construct a powerful economic system and set up faculties and universities that help science, analysis and the humanities.
But, unbelievably, this present administration appears bent on dismantling a lot of what that United States has achieved. The beneficiaries seem like tech leaders and billionaires. We can not let this proceed; we should stand as much as help our Structure and the rule of legislation.
Christina Helble
Columbia, Md.
To the Editor:
As a retired hospice chaplain, I can sadly attest to a March 11 letter author’s feedback concerning the attainable demise of our type of authorities.
I’ve sat with numerous seniors dealing with the tip of their lives. It broke my coronary heart to listen to them voicing their anguish over the truth that our democratic type of authorities may not survive. To spend a lifetime cherishing the beliefs our nation was based on, solely to see these values being thrown away, was paramount within the minds of these quickly to depart.
What these people had in widespread was that they wished their kids and grandchildren to develop up in a democratic land of alternative. They have been grieving for everybody’s future.
Don’t we owe it to those that have gone earlier than us to show this round? Is it actually too late?
(Rev.) Kathie Teeter
Lebanon, Pa.
The E.P.A., Upended
To the Editor:
Re “E.P.A. Mounts Broad Retreat on Air pollution” (entrance web page, March 13):
Proponents of destroying environmental protections is probably not involved about soiled air, filthy water and contaminated soil, however these will have an effect on them. Do they need a return to what the environment was like earlier than the Environmental Safety Company was established, and consequential protections just like the Endangered Species Act have been signed into legislation many years in the past by a Republican president, Richard Nixon?
Our well being and our economic system are stronger with safeguards that assist all of us breathe, eat and drink higher, offering confidence that day by day residing is not going to hurt us.
Some members of the G.O.P. used to name themselves the Social gathering of Life, however with their makes an attempt to destroy establishments which have helped maintain us wholesome and secure, that moniker now appears absurd. Maybe they are going to change their philosophy after they expertise the injury their insurance policies have on their very own households and communities, and on themselves. I hope it’s not too late by then.
Edwin Andrews
Malden, Mass.
