Conservatives don’t share liberals’ global view
In response to “The world has changed; but the GOP hasn’t, and can’t” (Opinion, Oct. 10), Jay Bookman has declared the Trump administration corrupt and incompetent. Conservatives see the Trump administration as a competent answer to the failures of Barack Obama. The Russians, Chinese and Iranians laughed at our president. They had no respect for a man more concerned about his legacy than the American people. Failures in economic growth. The worst GDP in decades. The worst job growth. Obama is a progressive, more concerned about being a globalist than a U.S. citizen. He was for total open borders, not a well-defined country. Trump won the election according to our laws and Constitution. When protesters filled the halls of the Capitol during Justice Kavanaugh’s hearings, they were largely paid protesters. Jay Bookman said, “The world has changed.” His globalist society has arrived in the U.S. and yes, we want no part of it.
HERMAN KISTLER, WOODSTOCK
Luckovich accurately depicts changing climate
Mike Luckovich’s depiction of climate change as frogs relaxing in rapidly heating pots of water (Opinion, Oct. 9) is so appropriate. Discussing the increased value of their “fossil fuels investments” as temperatures climb is a sad parody of what we are witnessing in the Trump Administration. Individuals and corporations are winning policy decisions that create wealth by spewing climate-warming pollution. Americans are left watching in horror as real life climate change destroys property and lives. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change just announced that climate change is happening faster than scientists predicted, with crisis-level impacts now expected by 2040. Ironically, two American economists just won a Nobel Prize for their lifetime work on a tax on carbon emissions designed to slow climate change. Let’s turn the heat down for the “frogs” and humanity by adopting that award-winning carbon pricing solution.
JEFF JOSLIN, ATLANTA
