To The Reader’s Forum:

If I didn’t love my country, it would be easy to stick my head in the sand for the next 4 years and pretend that the President isn’t taking Elon’s chainsaw to our democracy. I could not read the newspaper or listen to the news, I could “drink the Kool-Aid.” But I can’t. So I will write letters, contact my representatives and attend protests. Not that my representative cares what I think, I’m one of the falsehood spreading Democrats, the “Liberal Left” though, honestly, I consider myself moderate.

In the chaos the President has created, it’s hard to decide what is most outrageous, is it dismantling USAID, which, through provision of aid to other countries, fostered a positive image of the United States? Is it seeking retribution of those the President feels have wronged him, ordering investigations of them? Is it removal of over 300 books from the library of the United States Naval Academy because they are considered “DEI”? Apparently, those young men and women, some of the brightest in our nation are not capable of critical thinking, so remove Toni Morrison but leave Adolph Hitler.

The list is long, but I think the recent use of the Social Security Administration to declare 6,100 immigrants dead in order to cancel their social security numbers is truly frightening. If this isn’t the very definition of a slippery slope, I don’t know what is. We don’t actually have to kill people as the Nazi’s did, we just have to say they are dead. How amoral have we become as a society if we allow this to happen? Where does this stop?

To those who would tell me to get over it, he won the election, I have accepted he won, I don’t claim that the election was stolen, none of the Democrats I know stormed the capital to prevent the results being certified, and I don’t have a F*** Trump flag hanging in my yard. It’s not Trump Derangement Syndrome, it’s Trump Reality Sickness.

Mary Bosek

Bemus Point