Readers sound off on politics for good, shingles vaccines and employment data

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Belfast, Maine: Let america not marque momentous decisions based connected anger. Doing truthful has started galore wars that wounded each involved, forever. Government has ever been corrupted by wealth and the powerfulness that goes with it. Politicians rotate done the system, but Big Money is ever there.

We Americans indispensable enarthrosis immoderate work for allowing it to tighten its grip connected our country. We summation spot by taking responsibility, not by blaming and complaining. Every erstwhile successful awhile, idiosyncratic comes on who captures that anger, utilizing it to their advantage. We person an idiosyncratic who makes wide that if elected, helium volition destruct his enemies and rip everything apart. While our choler astatine the dysfunction of authorities mightiness tempt america to destruct our government, arsenic opposed to scraping retired the evil of money, we mightiness privation to look astatine dictatorships astir the satellite to spot however precise hard it is to travel backmost to ideology erstwhile it has fallen.

It’s lone by national enactment astatine the crushed level that we tin support what works and destruct what doesn’t. Three things hurting our state close present are the deficiency of civility towards our neighbors, the grade to which wealth controls everything, and the clime catastrophe that threatens our children’s future, close successful beforehand of our eyes.

On Tuesday, Nov. 5, who volition springiness “we, the people” the top accidental to enactment from the crushed up — to instrumentality work for the changes we want? Not to destroy, but to build? Chris Wright

Dictator dreams

East Meadow, L.I.: According to erstwhile White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, President Donald Trump said, “I request the benignant of generals that Hitler had.” The lone crushed idiosyncratic would request the benignant of generals Hitler had is if that idiosyncratic was readying to bash the aforesaid things Hitler did. The prime is clear. Elect Kamala Harris president. Otherwise, a felonious, dementia-riddled dictator Trump would terminate our constitutionally protected rights and worse. Richard Skibins

Already started

Bronx: I anticipation Americans are listening and heeding what those generals who worked intimately with Donald Trump erstwhile helium was president are saying. The dire warnings are retired there. Plus, Trump has made it wide that helium intends to fastener up his “enemies” and usage the U.S. Army to bash truthful if necessary. If this antheral becomes president, America volition ne'er beryllium America again. He has already changed America. We saw the storming of the Capitol, wherever hundreds of constabulary officers were pummeled with each types of objects. Trump calls Jan. 6 “a time of love.” There has ever been a peaceful transportation of powerfulness successful America. Now, canvass workers person to beryllium acrophobic and equipped guards are needed astatine polling stations. This is what Trump and his allies person wrought. We volition beryllium ruled by a tinhorn dictator from whom nary 1 tin escape. Pauline Graham Binder

Loser mindset

College Point: Trump has called John McCain and American World War I soldiers killed oregon taken captive losers. He surely considers Jesus a loser, arsenic Jesus was crucified, and himself a loser based connected his galore tribunal losses and bankruptcies. He is the eventual incoherent intelligence loser, careless of the forthcoming predetermination results. He tin marque the state a loser — let’s anticipation helium doesn’t get a chance! Reginald Swift

Scary sight

Queens Village: For those of you who person gotten your Halloween pumpkins but can’t find the clip oregon vigor for the face-carving, wherefore not conscionable get pictures of the large orangish man, Donald Trump, and enactment them implicit your pumpkins? Now, I inquire you: What could beryllium much frightening? Lawrence Krasner

Decisive decider

Howard Beach: Don’t beryllium fooled! Do you privation to ballot for idiosyncratic who was not elected to tally for president? Who needs different men to talk for her successful a debate? Who had astir 4 years to halt migrants from entering the U.S. illegally? Who is listening to different men telling her what she should bash to tally this country? If she is elected, tin you representation her telling overseas leaders what to bash to resoluteness the wars that are starring to World War III? We person stateless New Yorkers walking the thoroughfare but the migrants person money, wellness benefits and surviving quarters, adjacent though galore are arrested for breaking the law. Trump is galore things, I agree, but helium doesn’t request different men to talk for him. When Trump speaks, others volition listen. And if helium says halt the wars, the wars stop! Nick Di Pasquale

Contradictory

Montebello, N.Y.: I person ne'er seen specified breathtaking hypocrisy. In “Hostile meddling” (editorial, Sept. 6), you telephone retired Russia and Iran for meddling successful our statesmanlike election, but successful “I spy successful Albany” (editorial, Sept. 6), you condemn immoderate probe into meddling by their state China due to the fact that it was conducted by the Trump administration. And this is however our enemies volition yet triumph: done the hypocrisy of their victims. Wallington M. Simpson Jr.

Mix-up

Peekskill, N.Y.: There was rather the mistake successful Wednesday’s impermanent file by Ken Frydman (“Trump’s McDonald’s sojourn puts Harris successful blistery oil,” op-ed, Oct. 23). He wrote that successful 2004, Democratic campaigner for president John Kerry mislaid that predetermination by 2.5% to the incumbent President George Herbert Walker Bush! Wrong! Kerry mislaid that predetermination to GHWB’s son, George W. Bush, who was the incumbent. The elder Bush won the presidency successful 1988 and mislaid successful ’92 to Bill Clinton, of course. Get past correct, please! Steven J. Bevacqua

Silenced victims

Brooklyn: To Voicer James Baldwin: You accidental that galore radical person been successful threatening situations by stateless radical successful the subway, yet each of them seemingly were capable to extricate themselves without sidesplitting anyone. The crushed we haven’t heard from those who were incapable to extricate themselves from information without sidesplitting idiosyncratic is that they are dormant — six successful 2020, 8 successful 2021, 10 successful 2022, 5 successful 2023 and 3 truthful acold this year. Steve Miller

Incomplete makeover

Bayside: Sam Champion, you’re wearing 1 of my husband’s ties I sent you. You forgot the socks! Theresa Polese

Still good

Carmel, N.Y.: Some bully quality for these hard economical times: Billions of dollars successful acquisition cards spell unused successful the United States! But by law, expired acquisition cards tin beryllium replaced wrong 9 years of expiration dates! Notify the paper issuer institution and they volition supply replacement cards. Susan McCormack

On your own

Freeport, L.I.: Voicer Trudy Mansfield identified a myopic oversight of aesculapian plans. Preventative shingles shots are typically not covered by Medicare nor backstage plans, adjacent though the microorganism tin sideline victims for months and unit them into extended attraction facilities for life. Yet, plans often screen its attraction with almighty narcotics. Virtually each big has immoderate likelihood of succumbing to this secondary manifestation of chickenpox, an highly communal puerility disease. After watching my parent dice an excruciating decease from its ravages, I considered the $250 changeable a bargain. Bob Sterner

Plan your plan

Sanford, Fla.: Voicer Trudy Mansfield complains that since she does not person a Part D Medicare cause plan, her preventative vaccines are not covered. Unfortunately, if you don’t motion up and wage the premiums for a Part D plan, you are not entitled to those benefits. If you take to spell with a cheaper alternative, you get what you wage for. Perhaps the DEA enactment is not the best. It whitethorn outgo thing now, but you extremity up paying for further services aboriginal on. It’s a beauteous elemental prime and not a occupation with the strategy successful immoderate way. Bruce McMenemy

Inadequate overview

Brooklyn: Voicer Pete McKenna asks a precise astute and intelligent question regarding the monthly jobs data. The authorities and quality media ne'er archer the full truth. Are the jobs full-time oregon part-time? Are they minimum wage oregon good-paying? Are they contractual oregon permanent? Are they national oregon non-union? Are they jobs with benefits? Most importantly, the database of states that really suffer jobs is ne'er given. You’re right, Pete. Someone is lying and not telling the full truth. The monthly reporting of jobs is conscionable propaganda. Joseph Savino