The Patriot Post® · Reader Comments

Editor’s Note: Each week we receive hundreds of comments and correspondences — and we read every one of them. What follows are a few thought-provoking comments about specific articles. The views expressed herein don’t necessarily reflect those of The Patriot Post.

Re: “Joe Biden’s Appalling Payout to Illegals”

“How can this possibly be legal? And how do we stop it? This is sick. Humans have to provide the luxuries enjoyed in this country — cell phones, a bountiful food supply, clean water, electricity, air conditioning, medical care, housing, etc. If nobody wants to work, can’t work, or is not qualified to work — they don’t have much of an education, can’t speak English, or don’t have marketable job skills, for example — how can that be sustained?” —Texas

Re: “And Now It’s Time for Spending Myths With Joe”

“Warming would result in a longer growing season and, thus, more food and natural fibers for clothing available worldwide. Wouldn’t more food lead to healthier and happier people? Wouldn’t the easy availability of natural fibers help to clothe the formerly hungry and naked? Wouldn’t denying starving, poorly clothed people throughout the world the means of life and civilization, solely for societal glory and wealth, actually be committing crimes against humanity?” —Missouri

Re: “Biden Jets Off to Glasgow Climate Summit”

“Distraction, obfuscation, and deceit are tactics used to avoid direct confrontation with a stronger opponent. Socialists are using normal climate cycles to advance their power over all except their favored elites. The fact that the world continues to get warmer since the last ice age is suppressed in favor of anthropogenic global warming, and even that is deceitfully renamed ‘climate change.’ The climate is always changing. The cause is uncertain. Whether mankind can do anything about it is as foolish a pursuit as mankind changing the color of the sky. This is about prohibiting everything except socialism. Nothing less.” —Missouri

“For these Glasgow elites to give China a pass on any ‘climate change’ mandates they might come up with is both hypocritical and ironic. They push it on us but not on China, despite China being the biggest industrial polluter in the world. China is a nation that’s all about regulation, yet it will refuse to be held to any environmental regulations crafted by the elites. After all, it’s still a struggling developing nation, right? And finally, while the participating nations will have to suffer the expense and overhead of any ‘climate change’ self-mandates, China won’t. It’ll pocket the net wealth and use it for more military and strategic resources designed to take over the world, as it’s been working on all along.” —Illinois

Re: “Manchin Draws a Line in the Sand”

“Can Manchin really be what we used to call a Democrat? The progressives are truly socialists. The party that left Reagan also left the Democrats and liberals behind. It’s time for each senator and representative to stand up and declare their true allegiance. Stop hiding behind the Democrat Party. That faction of the electorate that voted for FDR is no longer a bloc. Between the value brought by Trump and the disaster brought by Biden, it’s time even the real Democrats take back their party or just desert it as it has them.” —Nevada

“We will get to see if Manchin is a man of integrity and sticks to his principles, or if he is like too many politicians with positions that ‘evolve’ after ‘deep reflection.’ If Manchin changes his mind, his truth is relative, subject to the capricious whims of mass hysteria unanchored to the truth of thousands of years of human history.” —Missouri

Re: “What Role Do Parents Play in Education?”

“We didn’t have a Department of Education until Jimmy Carter. Anyone with eyes that see can tell students aren’t as smart as they used to be. Just think: The people who went to the moon didn’t have a Department of Education. And that goes for so many other things. It’s time we eliminated it completely. Think of all the money saved. By the way, I went to a Catholic grade school in the ‘60s. When I left and went to public schools in Detroit, which were some of the best in the nation at that time, I was a grade ahead of everybody else, yet the nuns who taught us had no degrees. Explain that!” —Michigan

Re: “Racist Academic Accidentally Renounces His Life’s Work”

“Not surprising that many 'white’ college applicants are claiming to be ‘Native American’ or some other race — after all, look where it got Elizabeth Warren! Is Ibram X. Kendi the reincarnation of Alabama segregationist governor George Wallace? ‘Past discrimination, present discrimination, future discrimination’ sounds eerily like Wallace’s slogan ‘segregation then, segregation now, segregation forever!’ As the French say, ‘The more things change, the more they stay the same.’” —Arizona

Re: “Vax Mandates Imperil New York City”

“Those who try to coerce people into being vaccinated while stifling discussion contrary to the party line on COVID-19 remind me of C. S. Lewis’s observation: ‘Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.’ Mandates and censorship are disrespectful and increase the suspicion that something’s wrong with the vaccines. The right way to answer lies is with demonstrable truth, not forced silence.” —Minnesota

Re: “The Disturbing Trend of Self-Sterilizing Women”

“Before requesting this procedure, these young women should go to Japan and get to know the residents of apartments for older people. Many of them are so lonely that they purchase robotic babies and pets because they never had children. Japan has a serious demographic crisis because its birth rate has been far below replacement rate for decades, and it’s not well socially — its suicide rate is among the highest in the OECD. A society needs children to help focus its members on something other than themselves. A childless society too easily becomes a selfish and loveless society.” —Minnesota

“Continue down the logical path: If humanity is a blight on the world, what could be more ‘unselfish’ than suicide? Never mind reducing the future population by foregoing reproduction; it’s even more virtuous for these pinheads to reduce the population now by removing themselves from it. And they’d still be able to vote for Democrats.” —Georgia

“No doubt they’re completely and totally ignorant of playing into the hands of Planned Parenthood, which has killed more Americans than probably all of the brutal dictators of the last 100 years. Our nation is crumbling in part because we’ve either been ‘brainwashed’ or because we’re too busy to go after these whose goal is our demise. America has corporately ‘kicked God out of America.’ That is the real problem.” —Colorado

Re: “NFL Akin to Slavery, Says Washed Up Kaepernick”

“I don’t know that we can assume Kaepernick to be unintelligent (although I’ve never heard any evidence to the contrary.) But as Reagan said, ‘The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.’ It would be a breath of fresh air if Nike and the media would cease giving Kaepernick a platform from which to be a ‘superspreader’ of misinformation and idiocy.” —Georgia