Letters to the Editor: When young people teach the adults
When young people teach adults
about the value of common sense
Bravo, Round Rock students! You have more sense than the adults in your school district.
Sometimes we need to use common sense to solve problems, and common sense has been badly lacking during this entire pandemic. Often it's the young people who lead the way during dark times, as in the Vietnam war.
No, I'm not young, I'm 70, but I couldn't agree more with those smart students, demanding real solutions from their elders regarding COVID-19 protocols.
Please listen to them and to real experts, and maybe we can beat this thing and give our children the normal lives they deserve.
Janet Tracy, Austin
Lawmakers who won't pass voting
rights legislation violate their oath
Just heard this one: A patient goes into the emergency room with a wound that will kill him if it's left untreated. The Democrat doctor says no problem, he just needs to get a Republican doctor to help. That's great bipartisan cooperation. The only problem is that because of delays, the patient has died.
This is what's happening to our democracy. Our country's freedom to vote is dying because a bipartisanship approach is being applied to the partisan problem of Republicans doing anything to please a defeated president, even fixing states' voting rights.
What Republicans, and some Democrats, have forgotten is that the filibuster is not a constitutional right. But voting rights are protected by constitutional amendments. The Republican machinations to deter voters are un-constitutional. Therefore, the Republicans and Democrats who refuse to pass voting rights legislation are violating their oaths of office and should be removed from their elected positions.
Janell Ross, Austin
It's not about securing elections,
but about winning the next ones
The laws that Republican legislatures are passing are not about securing elections. The last election was the most secure in the country's history. What these legislators are doing is rigging voting laws in an attempt to secure a victory for Republicans candidates.
They failed their attempt to steal the election so now election laws are aimed at winning the next one.
Dave Easterwood, Austin
This article originally appeared on Austin American-Statesman: Austin American-Statesman Letters to the Editor: Jan. 24, 2022
