Should we vote for candidates willing to sell their souls during an election? | Opinion
Republican agenda
It has become evident why the Republicans are attacking CRT, a law school course. It is to distract and keep the public ignorant of their CRRT agenda: Crazy Radical Republican Treachery.
The Republicans use terms like WOKE to help stir the pot of deception. They believe women’s health belongs in the hands of the politicians, they promote more guns over the safety of children and they know they can’t win a fair election so they gerrymander voting districts and suppress voting rights. Also they feel so sorry for the rich, they give them huge tax breaks and leave us fools to pay. Those are only some of their treacherous ways.
The negativity that has become the norm during our election cycles is over the top. How can you trust candidates who are willing to distort the truth, misinterpret public opinion and out-right lie? Do we need politicians who are willing to sell their souls to win an election?
Somehow we have lost our self-respect and integrity, creating a disconnect from reality. Because of this disconnect, we are slowly losing faith in our Constitution.
J. Adriano Hernandez, Lexington
Craft ad
When asked what Critical Race Theory is, Kentucky Gubernatorial candidate Kelly Craft recently said, “When you are having two children and you are having them to compete with one another because of race, or you having children have their differences because of color.”
According to the Legal Defense Fund - “Critical Race Theory, or CRT, is an academic and legal framework that denotes that systemic racism is part of American society...[I]t is not taught in K-12 schools.”
So…which is it? Two children competing with one another because of race? Or an academic approach exploring the underlying causes of racial inequalities?
We may not completely agree on its definition, but I’m pretty sure we can agree Craft’s statement is not CRT.
I am appalled.
Racism in America today is not just a matter of individual prejudice. It is embedded in our laws and our social constructs. It is why we had to adopt the 15th Amendment to the Constitution in 1869. It’s why we had to pass the 1964 Civil Rights Act. We’ve tried to root it out. But we never will if we don’t know our history and if we don’t teach it honestly and examine it critically.
Marilyn S. Daniel, Versailles
Elections have consequences
You see what happens when you hate people?
Women couldn’t stand Hillary Clinton. They sat back and allowed Trump to win in 2016. The man said it was his mission to end a women’s ability to have an abortion. He said it every time he made a public address. What the heck were the women of America doing while all of this was being said? They said it would never happen because Roe v. Wade is a done deal.
Fast forward to November 2016. You would have thought the world was coming to an end! Women gathered in the streets by the millions, screaming, yelling, and crying because Trump won. Europeans made fun of Trump. He stacked the Supreme Court with conservative judges just like he said he would. The Supreme Court judges said for years they wouldn’t overturn Roe v. Wade. After Trump won they turned around and said, “I said I wouldn’t vote that way, but somebody’s has to save the unborn babies of America!”
Recently, a Texas judge ruled that women can’t use abortion pills.
You see where hate got us? The women of America deserves every bit of this! I feel no empathy for any of them!
Yolanda Averette, Lexington
Free market choices
Kentucky’s children are cannon fodder for the state Attorney General Daniel Cameron as he eliminates free market investment choices of banks and other investors. Cameron supports a legal ban on investments aimed at net-zero emissions by 2050, yet these are investments that factor in the true costs of irresponsible energy production.
Cameron rejects the free-market evaluations that factor in health costs on our children and ourselves, disaster costs from the dying industry’s receding commitment to safety, and the clear future of devaluation of the dying industry as the inevitable switch to renewables increases. If coal was such a great investment, it would not need Cameron to babysit it.
The Attorney General is abusing government power to demand irresponsible investments in a dying industry that only benefits owners and eliminates free market choices – why? Is his goal to serve masters that will fund his reign over a wasteland state? Instead, he should commit to policies for a prospering and healthy Commonwealth. He should care about Kentucky’s children.
Cameron should stop his war on responsible businesses who want to lower fossil fuel consumption because it is a wise investment.
Cathy Hinko, Louisville
Play’s message
The musical play “Mean Girls” was performed recently at Great Crossings High School in Georgetown. Who were the individuals in the Scott County school system who took it upon themselves to impose their censorship of this play by avoiding all advertisement of it to the public? They failed miserably.
The irony of “Mean Girls” as ‘A Cautionary Tale’ and its success as both a play and movie was not lost on the audience, reflecting the ignorance displayed by legislators in Frankfort this legislative session. For the high school, it was a missed opportunity for “public service” by giving Frankfort a private performance.
The play is about teens discovering themselves; acceptance, body image, mental health, their total messy love/hate awareness of self and soul. The students, their parents, brave teachers, families and friends reflected what ‘truth’ in education is. Loud applause thanked them all for their courage.
But those fear-filled educators and legislators also taught a lesson: How to create distrust in a whole new generation of young people.
Judy Rembacki, Georgetown
Cameron’s dogma
Isn’t it so interesting that when Daniel Cameron slams Gov Beshear for closing churches during the pandemic, he isn’t aware that we can worship anywhere.
Becky Horine, Lexington
Cameron and Trump
It is fascinating that Daniel Cameron flaunts his Donald Trump endorsement at the same time he talks about his respect and support for law enforcement!. Trump has done most everything possible to prove he believes himself above the law in both his private life, his business dealings and his politics. He has surrounded himself with colleagues who have done his dirty work and have served prison time for their behavior on his behalf. And then we have Kelly Craft buying ads that are filled with preposterous prevarications about Andy Beshear promoting sex change surgeries for young children and suggesting our schools are filled with woke ideology. If these scurrilous and head-scratching ads do the trick to give the primary to either candidate, Kentucky is in for a very sordid and sorry race for our governorship.
Janice Russell, Lexington
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Compiled by Liz Carey
