The GOP wants their own referees for every game
I encourage the author of the recent letter, “Democrats are the ones attacking democracy,” to look up the definition of democracy and then carefully re-read their own post. Democracy is defined as a government by the people, characterized by rule of the majority.
Let’s emphasize “rule of the majority.” The Democratic Party has won the popular vote in five out of the last six presidential elections but has only secured the presidency three times.
Regarding judges: Why do they receive lifetime appointments while other branches of government must be elected? How is that democratic? Judges are supposed to rule based on the law, but the law can be interpreted in many ways. Currently, the GOP-appointed Supreme Court justices seem to have a rather flexible approach to legal interpretation.
If we’re using football as a metaphor, it feels like the GOP wants their own referees for every game, whether it’s home or away.
William Dossett, Boulder
I’ll be the old guy wearing the red MAGA cap
He is an obnoxious, boring, self-centered, arrogant, bragging, exaggerating narcissist. Some say he is a lying bully. Cut some slack — he is a New Yorker.
Opposing him is a giggling ninny. She has flipped on a dozen subjects. She learned her lines for the debate. Has she memorized anything since? She’ll say whatever to get elected, provided it isn’t her true beliefs.
Yes, I am a disillusioned old liberal. None of the policies of the last four progressive years make any sense. So, I suppose I’ll support the tough guy. It is better to have a bully in the White House who I understand than an air-head who I believe would front for a shadow government.
Say hello to me on the Pearl Street Mall, I’ll be the old guy wearing the red MAGA cap.
Carl Remstad, Boulder
Some food for thought about eating animals
These last weeks have been filled with false stories of immigrants abducting cats, dogs and other pets to put on their dinner plates. May I ask you: what was on your plate last night? Was it a formerly alive cow, pig or chicken? (Less publicized was possible goose- or duck-napping; you can readily buy both, especially during the winter holidays.)
What is the difference here? Your cat or dog might share a bed with you, cuddle with you, perhaps give you kisses, and offer loving companionship. Barnyard animals, probably not so much. I ask you to consider the difference between fictitious cat- and dog-napping and what lay on your plate last night. A difficult conundrum, or not so much? I chose to become vegetarian many decades ago. How about you?
Elle Rogers, Boulder
Treeing mountain lions is not hunting
I am writing to respond to a recent letter that claimed Prop 127 undermines our wildlife agency. The author tries to claim that the measure divides rural and urban voters.
I am a rural voter in Weld County, and I strongly disagree.
The author’s argument doesn’t make any sense because our wildlife agency exists to serve the citizens, not just trophy hunters and fur trappers, who make up less than one-half percent of us.
This measure is about stopping unethical methods of killing our native wild cats, which we put to bed long ago when we decided as voters by 70% to stop baiting and hounding bears.
The vast majority of us did not even realize that we are allowing a tiny minority to hound and bait cats today.
By voting “yes,” we are re-establishing our values, and supporting ethical hunting, and rural values along with urban values, together as citizens of the state served by our wildlife agency, which runs on tax dollars, hunting licenses, lottery proceeds, grants and federal dollars, too.
I urge you to vote “yes” on Prop 127, for the future of ethical hunting, because treeing cats with high tech is not hunting. Nor is selling the beautiful coats of bobcats, just to make a selfish profit by disrespecting our wildlife to sell heads and fur for luxury items. That is plain wrong.
Carol Gustafson, Greeley
