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What does he mean?

Richard London State College At recent rallies, Donald Trump has been saying variations of the following: “Get out and vote this time, but after this you won’t have to vote anymore. In four years we’ll have it fixed so good you’re not gonna have to vote.” What does he mean by this? That by 2028 they will have “fixed” the outcome of the election so that they are declared the winner even without having the votes? This is the standard form of a democracy-to-fascism transformation. The Nazi Party legitimately won its way to political power in Germany in the early 1930s ...

A new governing style

Kimball Shinkoskey Woods Cross Donald Trump’s governing style is seductive and exciting to MAGA folks precisely because it is so outrageous and new. No President has ever governed like this before. Trump doesn’t debate, he belittles. Trump doesn’t plan, he reacts. Trump doesn’t concede, he denies. The former president is not reliable, he is unpredictable. He doesn’t work in tandem, only alone. The presumptive nominee knows no written Constitution, no balance of power, no legislative process. Trump’s right hand is the law. Power is centered in himself, not the people or ...

Voting with integrity

Linda C. Danis Avis Election time again! Ads in newspapers, television, radio, mail and posters. We are inundated with them. But the sad part is that some candidates resort to lies, hatred, using division, etc. to get your vote. That’s all that counts. After that, they don’t care. At the same time, there are candidates that do tell the truth; that have accomplishments they can point to and really love our country. How can we know who is really telling the truth and can be counted on to do what is right? First, ask yourself why someone would lie to you? Do they respect you? Are ...

Re-elect Senator Casey

Jesse L. Barlow State College During the eight years I served on State College Borough Council, I found no better advocate for infrastructure or the needs of state, county and municipal governments than Senator Robert Casey, Jr. Senator Casey understood the state of Pennsylvania’s infrastructure and the need for rural broadband. I also found his office to be staffed with well-informed and enthusiastic people. My first visits to his office were during the frustrating Trump-Pence years when all we got was the all-talk-no-action PR campaign called “Infrastructure ...

Here he goes again

Ellen Sheerin Doylestown Once again Dave McCormick, a longtime resident of Connecticut, the Nutmeg State, is trying to buy himself a U.S. Senate seat. And once again he’s decided that he’d rather run in Pennsylvania than in Connecticut, where he actually lives. Don’t you wonder why he doesn’t have the courage to run from home? You’d think that Nutmeg Dave would have learned by now that Pennsylvanians don’t want him, even members of his own party. After all, in 2022 he lost the Republican Party primary to, of all people, fellow out-of-state millionaire, Dr Oz. It can’t ...

Childless people are not worthless

Harvey Gilbert Laporte Who hasn’t heard JD Vance’s “childless cat ladies” comment? The Republican candidate for vice president has repeatedly expressed contempt for women without children, once referring to them as “childless sociopaths.” In a 2021 interview with fellow misogynist Tucker Carlson, Vance suggested that “childless” people should pay more in taxes than those who “actually have kids” and therefore “a more direct stake in the future of this country.” What?! “Childless” Americans contribute more to the economy than those with children — ...