To the Editor:

So, according to last week’s “Learning in America” letter, Justice Juan Merchan is not a judge, rather a political activist, and all political activists have been indoctrinated by Marxist professors while attending colleges. That’s what I’d call a broad generalization. Do you really believe that anyone who attends college becomes a Marxist?

So, what is Ginni Thomas? When I hear the things that she and the other coup plotters were doing to weasel the former, failed President back into office, I have to conclude that she’s some kind of political activist. (I’m assuming she and her husband, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who was appointed to the court in 1991, attended colleges themselves. Why aren’t they Marxists?)

And speaking of Clarence Thomas, I thought slavery was no longer legal. Well, Harlan Crow appears to “own” Justice Thomas. It has cost Mr. Crow more than “forty acres and a mule” for Clarence, and that should be another impeachable offense against the GOP ledger.

And let’s not forget about the former President’s appointed political activist Judge Aileen Cannon, who’s dragging her politically inactive feet hoping that she never has to preside over his election interference trial in Georgia. Here’s to hoping she does have to do her job, but not as the political activist the former guy thought he was appointing, but as a judge.

What about Supreme Court justices appointed by the former President? The three of them perjured themselves in their appointment hearings. Haven’t they been ramrodded through to their jobs and become political activists when they betrayed their oaths? (Fortunately, the backlash to their flip-flop is going to result in another “blue wave” in November.)

Next we get a history lesson from a “Take America Back Again” whiner. “Two-hundred years ago most of these institutions were training places for Christian ministers.”

It’s a good thing to know history. It’s not such a good thing to pick and choose the things you think would be better if we went back 200 years.

Now that these people have succeeded in overturning Roe v. Wade, when will the folks on the Right decide to take America back to: before Title IX (here we go again, ladies), before Civil Rights, before the Nineteenth Amendment (yes, ladies, again this one’s for you), before the Emancipation Proclamation, etc.? Time would tell what else the Evangelicals would see as contrary to their fatuous beliefs.

Next, last week’s letter writer took a page out of the former President’s playbook to paint a picture of gloom and doom. Of course, the Right is monotonously appalled at the elimination of prayer in public schools, and they assert that’s why our country has been weakened “to the point of no return.” I think there’s hope for our return if the former President would just go away and stop portraying our country as a lost cause.

I took the letter writer’s advice to read Proverbs, but I don’t think we had the same takeaways. I read a lot of passages that condemned the foolish and forecast doom for their evil (Proverbs 1:26).

There is also much in Proverbs about gaining wisdom. However, for those on the right, who believe they’re gaining wisdom by slavishly watching the likes of Fox News, I would suggest you need a better source for truthful information. I’m just saying…

In his conclusion the writer seems to take a giant leap to “divine intervention” in pointing out that the former President’s birthday is, coincidentally, on Flag Day. Excuse me, but Flag Day is about the United States’ flag, the Stars and Stripes, “Old Glory,” not one of the former President’s vulgar, blasphemous, disrespectful, desecrating flags.

Here’s another timely passage from Proverbs 5:18-20 as a parting shot; the former President’s M.O. appears to be all over these three verses. Why? Why, indeed?

How about this broad generalization? God bless us all – no exceptions.

Keith R. Klawitter

Morgan