Donald Trump and maga Republicans are not supporting American democracy

Echo opinion letter published in the Pennsylvania Reading Eagle

The slogan of the MAGA (cult❗) movement has always been “America First.” But it appears to be moving our society in a direction that is profoundly un-American.

MAGA`s social model is a two-tiered society of the rich and the poor, with the middle class eliminated or reduced. The upper tier will be difficult to move into, with harshly enforced standards of race, religion, social class and education. Rights will be rationed out only to those meeting the approval of the ruling elite. Political dissent will be ruthlessly suppressed. We are seeing this already in the legal harassment of journalists and the consolidation of media outlets.

In short, MAGA`s America will follow an authoritarian pattern, with a rigid class structure resembling that of the European aristocracy that our ancestors rejected 250 years ago.

Patriotic Americans need to act now to preserve our democracy. 

Use your rights to speak out, organize and vote while those rights still exist.

From Steven R. Gruber in Robeson Township Pennsylvania

Mental Health policy research - Donald Trump should be the first trial patient

Letter: President needs help with mental health:Echo
Perhaps "red-flag" laws should apply to Donald Trump.

Blaming the mentally ill for America's deadly gun violence epidemic is wrong minded public policy. A better idea is to require all people who want to be president of the United States to pass a mental health background check!

Republicans wrongly believe that, somehow, blaming the mentally ill will cure America's problem with mass shootings and gun related moralities. Instead of allocating more money and community support resources to help improve care for the mentally ill, they want to blame gun violence on an already very vulnerable group of people, who cannot advocate for themselves. If a national policy is created whereby a mental health assessment will be required before a person is authorized to buy a gun, then Donald Trump, himself, should be the first trial patient.

This echo opinion letter was published in the Reading Eagle, a Pennsylvania newspaper:

To the Editor - I wholeheartedly support Donald Trump's mental health initiative (“Trump might try to add new health agency,” Reading Eagle, Aug. 23).

Once this program is implemented, a team of psychiatrists should immediately be dispatched to the White House. They would surely see that Trump displays dangerous attributes: a strong sense of resentment; desire for notoriety; obsession with aggressive individuals (in his case, foreign dictators); and narcissism.

According to this standard, Trump should be red-flagged, declared mentally incompetent and committed to treatment without delay. He should not be given access to firearms.

Steve Gruber from Robeson Township, Pennsylvania