Re: “Trump blames DEI and Biden for crash under his watch” (Jan. 31, A6) and “Snap out of it, Democrats” (Jan. 31, Opinion):
If we thought President Donald Trump had reached the bottom of disrespectful, denigrating and cruel talk, we were proved wrong when without any data and facts whatsoever he blamed the horrendous airplane and helicopter crash on diversity requirements with the inference that “those” people are not competent enough to hold jobs with responsibility.
When the hero of the 2009 crash into the Hudson River, Chesley B. Sullenberger III, was asked in an MSNBC interview if he had any comments to the president’s remarks, he answered in his calm, deliberate manner: “Not surprised. Disgusted.”
Knowing that there are heroes of Capt. Sullenberger’s caliber, sung and unsung, with integrity, moral spine, guts and personal courage makes it easier for us the people to heed Charles M. Blow’s call to action. In his column, he writes “ … resistance must be expressed in opinion polls and at cash registers.”
I sense that people and not only Democrats are waking up from their initial stupor and are ready to take up the fight again for the basic decency we want to live by.
Ruth Kildall, Seattle
