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LETTER from SCOTT DUNCAN

To the Editor:

I grew up in a small town in Upstate New York where the streets were lined with big maple trees. Some streets had still had slate sidewalks. There were many of those big beautiful old Victorian houses you see in villages across Central New York.

I remember marching down the street in the parades. I was a Cub Scout and then a Boy Scout. I think I even got to carry the American flag one time. We would end up at the American Legion where they would serve hotdogs and bug juice as many of the village residents milled around.

In those days I was proud of America, it was my country, it was a nation of immigrants who all came together for a better way of life. Thats the way I saw it at my young age.

As I got older I discovered the truth about many things: the shootout at OK corral with Wyatt Earp had nothing to do with justice. It was about a monopoly of gambling and prostitution.

The founding of my country was the result of mass liquidation of the indigenous species thatwere already here. Millions were murdered.

And then there was the fact that there had been wars almost every year since the founding of this country.

We are an island: Why do we invest so much in military? Eisenhower warned about the military industrial complex, but nobody listened. Greed and power were too tempting.

The AMA was created to form a monopoly to drive away homeopathy doctors. It was not about freedom or a better healthcare system. The American Cancer Society was started to form a monopoly. So much power and greed.

I am embarrassed. The reality is every country in the world has blood on its hands. Its time to stop whining about the past, forget about restitution. We should just move forward as a country and try to do better America has evolved into a petty country. We think everything is black or white. Democrats or Republicans, socialism or democracy, communism or democracy.

Politicians spend time backbiting each other. Its more about their character and how much money they can put into advertising than the quality of their character or the ability to do the job.

Then there are all those people who fear socialism or communism its like they feel its an either/or situation. Sure socialism can breed lethargy, but then capitalism breeds greed and self-centeredness.

Hopefully, one of these days we will get somebody who focuses on the needs and problems of the people, not the government and corporations. The corporations have gained so much power and control they have taken away much of our freedom.

So think about what America really is and what it can be for all, not just you!

I am not well-versed in history but I think the early settlers saw this land as a place of new beginnings for all people regardless of race or religion.

A land of opportunity in fairness for all equality and justice

When its time to vote in any election, forget about what he said or she said, think about what they can do for all the people and not just the One Percent or yourself.

Its not a popularity contest, its not about protecting your beliefs. It is a responsibility to run a nation. It should be done with dignity, compassion, iron-willed determination and a love for a nation that embraces all races and religions and all economic needs in a peaceful environment.

Whether we like it or not, it is not just ourselves anymore but we are part of a global community and we had better start acting with maturity, and not like a reality TV show.

SCOTT DUNCANHardwick Forest

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Richard A. Gallun Published 9:00 a.m. CT Oct. 8, 2020

I was born during the Great Depression to a Milwaukee family that had owned a tannery for nearly a century.My family was well off and Republican.They hated FDR, whom they considered a socialist. Starting when I was in grade school, my parents instilled in me the belief that, when the masses found that they were a majority, they would "vote themselves a living," doing so with our money.

I followed in my parents' conservative footsteps.As a teenager, I defended the causes espoused by the John Birch Society opposition to communism, wealth redistributionand government interference in the economy. Later, I supported Sen. Joe McCarthy in his crusade to root out commies. Even with McCarthy, the Republicans were still the defenders of liberty and the rule of law.

As I reached voting age in the late 1950s, I saw the Republicans as not only the keepers of these ideals but also as defenders of the environment and fiscal responsibility. They invoked their historic leader, Abraham Lincoln, to give them cover as leaders in the cause of racial justice. This stuff was pretty attractive as a political perspective and it seemed to reflect history as I knew it.

Laterelections turned to pocketbook issues.Ordinary Americans struggled with the burdens of inflation, high-interest ratesand unemployment. Republican stances on economic issues anti-unionismand opposition to public welfare pitted them against the poor. Eventually, they realized that to grab the votes of the less-well-off they needed a better weapon than"trickle-down economics."

Republicans found their solution in the Dixiecrats, loyal Democrats who despised the racial policies of both parties.To get the Dixiecrat vote, Republicans only had to sacrifice a few values like racial equity, the right to privacyand separation of church and state. And while their strategic revision represented a departure from historical values, the party got its moneys worth. This alliance rendered changes in the electoral map that gave the Republicans every election they were to win thereafter. The Southern strategy was a grand slam.

During his two terms, President Ronald Reagan followed the Republican script admirably, but he endorsed the sacrifice of a couple of causes that were beginning to fall under siege when he first came into office gun safety and protection of the environment. From a standing start in 1980, the Republicans had fallen totally into the hands of the National Rifle Associationby the time of the Columbine shooting in 1999.

As far asthe environment was concerned, Republicans had possessed a good record going back to Teddy Roosevelt, and more recently, President Richard Nixon had established the Environmental Protection Agency. But despite these credentials, starting with Reagan, and especially after 2000, the Republicans always sided with business over the environment.

George H. W. Bush executed the job of president with clarity of Republican values, overseeing the fall of the Soviet Union and building an unchallengeable coalition for the first Gulf War. But he violated his promise of no new taxes, when taxes were required for fiscal integrity. He was evicted for the sin of balancing the budget.

As a candidate, Georg W. Bush abandoned his fathers fidelity to financial discipline right out of the box. He went on to cut taxes twice and to leave the next administration with a deep operating deficit. What was more important, he led us into a needless war. By the time he left office, the Republicans had sacrificed two more values fiscal integrity and opposition to foreign adventurism.

My falling away from the Republicans was largely a function of the complete abandonment of their traditional values.

After President Donald Trump won, I thought Republicans would reject him as they observed his foolish and often criminal acts. But they never did, and the wise soon left the party. The acquiescence of the Senate to Trumps corruption makes all the Republican senators still holding office as guilty as the president himself. They had the authority to stop him but chose not to.

Having replaced honesty and integrity with hypocrisy, the Republicans have only one remaining value, that of staying in power.

I am not asking you to become a Democrat, as I have done.I am asking you to think hard about candidates in this particular election and whether the Republican Party as it is currently configured and particularly its candidate for president truly represents the party and values you signed on for.

Richard A. Gallun is a longtime Wisconsin businessman who has served as a fundraiser for many charitable causes. He was also Wisconsin campaign finance chairman for Ronald Reagan's first run for president in 1976, finance chairman for Senator Bob Kasten, R-Wis.,from 1979-87, and finance chairman for the Republican Party of Wisconsin 1989-91.

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To the Editor:

In response to Mr. Miles opinion letter which appeared on September 12. I am familiar with Turkeys ethnic cleansingin 1922 (my mothers familyis from Aivali, Asia Minor) and my fathers town in Cyprus 1974 (Tumbou).However, America first.I love Greece. My children and grandchildren speak, read and write Greek. I think in Greek, but our country, America, comes first.That is what President Trump has been trying to do. The Democratsfrom day one (Schumer, Pelosi) said they would veto everything the president would propose. Maxine Waters saidto disrupt the lives of all Republicans go in their face, etc.The Democratsare ruining everything we stand for. My parents were Democrats.I, too, until I witnessed the disgracefulKavanaughhearings which was Feinsteins farce.Democrats are jealous because Hillary lost and Trump gets to do the things he promised. The Democrats espouse Communism. I saw firsthand Communism in Venezuela.Barefoot children begging for money to buy food.The mud houses on the side of the mountain. Alsoa close relatives grandfather was shot and killed by a Communist neighbor in the southern Peloponnese.Communism is reprehensible.

I feel religiousleaders should not influence voters one way or another. They should focus on the killing of full term babies. That should be on their conscience. Also we should put all the haters of American laws and traditions on a slow boat to China.

AglaiaTheodosiouTassa

Woodside, NY

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Its the China virus. Its not the coronavirus. Corona sounds like a place in Italy, a beautiful place. Its corona? No. Its the China virus. They dont want to say it. You know, the radical left, they dont want to say. . .

~Donald Trump, Pittsburgh, September 22, 2020

Communism is a disease of the heart, the Japanese are but a disease of the skin.

~Chiang Kai-shek, Chinese Nationalist leader (1928-1975)

Covid-19 is not a disease of the skin. Despite this sick Presidents scurrilous attempts to trivialize and politicize itto blame the China virus on the radical leftthe novel coronavirus is both terrifying and terrorizing. Its not a conspiracy or theory or conspiracy theory. It is real.

It does not care if you are conservative or liberal. Or, for that matter, if your are a white supremacist.

It does not recognize national borders. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), far more of us (see below) have died of Covid-19 than Chinese (4,746 deaths) or Indians (72,049 deaths). Even allowing for possible under-reporting, its worth noting that China and India are the two most populous nations on the planet with a combined population of 2.7 billion. The U.S. has a fraction of the total population (330.4 million) and nearly three times more reported deaths.

It does not spare the rich and powerful. Not even the highest ranking officials in Washington. Most notably, the one who returned to the White House from Walter Reed Military Medical Center and immediately removed his mask. The one who tweeted:

Dont be afraid of Covid. Dont let it dominate your life. We have developed, under the Trump Administration, some really great drugs & knowledge. I feel better than I did 20 years ago!

Never mind that the very same Covid has infected nearly 36 million people globally, caused the deaths of 211,000 Americans, and has wrecked the lives of millions more in countless ways. Donald Trump who gets the best care taxpayers money can buy clearly doesnt give a damn about the health of the country or the American people.

When the leader of Chinas KMT Nationalist party, Chiang Kai-shek, sought to unify a deeply divided and debilitated China between the two world wars, his main adversaries were the Communists under Mao Zedong and Japan under an ultra-nationalist regime similar to dirigisme and fascism in Europe.

It was in this historical context that Chiang drew the now-famous distinction between a disease of the heart and one of the skin. What Chiang meant was that unlike the threat from Japan, Communism was internal. Like cancer, not like acne or eczema. The latter is a serious problem; the former is life-threatening.

Chiang wanted to establish a republic. He believed that Communism was antithetical to that aim. He was right, of course, as soon became clear when Mao emerged victorious after WWII and established a brutal and bizarre totalitarian state. Mass persecution and blood purges followed in short order. Then came calamitous state-directed campaignsthe Great Leap Forward (1958-1962) and the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976).

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Every honest, functioning adult knows this pandemic is a deadly disease that can attack almost anything in the body with devastating consequences, says cardiologist Harlan Krumholz of Yale University. Its ferocity is breathtaking and humbling.

In severe cases, Covid-19 leaves its victims gasping for breath. Not infrequently, afflicted patients often quite suddenly develop a condition called acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Commonly, these patients end up on ventilators. Many die.

Chiang Kai-shek during the interwar years was the leader of a nation in turmoil and a society at war with itself. He lost the struggle for control of mainland China in 1949. The rest is historya tragic history of mindless mass executions, brutal repression, crushing press censorship, and self-destructive economic policies that left the nation in dire poverty. At the center of it all was a cult of personalitya ruthless ruler with a hideously outsized ego who would not listen to reason.

If that description sounds familiar, if it reminds the reader of an irrational captain at the helm of another ship of state sailing in troubled waters and in grave danger of capsizing, its not because history repeats itself. But at this perilous time in American history, it rhymes. And in so doing it rings out a clarion calla dire warningto all who are not deaf.

Its a supreme irony that President Trump has chosen to call Covid-19 the China virus. Hes right to view the PRC under Xi Jingping as a rival, to be critical of Beijings unfair tradepolicies and practices.

But China is a disease of the skin. Donald Trump is a disease of the heart.

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