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: “Biden Drills the Strategic Petroleum Reserve”

“Economics is the exchange of goods and services for the mutual benefit of all. Money is a proxy, a substitute, for goods and services. The law of supply and demand is simple and universal, but understanding economic nuances to facilitate growth is complex. 
Socialists see supply and demand as evil capitalism. They think public ownership and price/quota controls can achieve equity, history be damned. Socialism suppresses supply and demand to a black market. Moreover, when profits are prohibited, labor is reduced to the minimum required. Capitalism symbiotically rewards individual responsibility, creating a common good. Socialism prohibits individual incentives, creates a state parasite, and produces a common misery.” —Missouri

Re: “Where Biden’s Federal Vaccine Mandate Stands”

“Year after year, thousands die on our roadways due to drunk drivers. Are we to expect a return to prohibition in order to control this plague? If the vaccines are to be believed safe and effective, why should those who are fully vaccinated be concerned over those who aren’t? Just as free people can choose to consume alcohol knowing the possible outcomes if they drive, why can’t those same free people decide if they want a vaccine or not?” —Maryland

Re: “Will the Mob Veto the Bill of Rights?”

“It sure seems that everything Americans of color have been fighting for the past half-century has been slowly turned upside down. Integration was seen as a necessity to achieve civil rights for people of color. Now, the militant wing of racial ‘equality’ pushes for black-only schools, dorms, graduations, and political movements. Equal justice under the law was preeminent. Now we see trials, courts, DAs, and policing being driven by the victim status of people of color. How do we become a colorblind society? Be careful what kind of equality you ask for!” —Maryland

Re: “O Moderate Democrats, Where Art Thou?”

“Seems to me that leftists have been able to make a lot of progress for their various causes by calling anyone who opposes anything they want names — ‘racist’ is just the latest. The dictionary has a word for people who are utterly intolerant of any creed, belief, or opinion that differs from their own. That word is ‘bigot.’ Isn’t it time we turned the table on them with their own tactics and started calling them out as bigots?” —Virginia

Re: “Tuesday Short Cuts”

“‘The Rittenhouse trial … highlighted the growing presence of guns on America’s streets and the failure of efforts to come up with even modest new gun restrictions’ (New York Times). Once again, the Left’s newspaper of record looks at an incident and sees only a lack of regulation. Rittenhouse used his gun legally, and only in self-defense. His attacker, a convicted felon, was the one who was illegally in possession of a handgun, which he threatened to use in a criminal manner. There’s no particular need for ‘modest new gun restrictions.' As with the immigration catastrophe, the problem with gun violence is not too few laws or that 'the system is broken’; it’s that the Left refuses to enforce laws already in place.” —Georgia

“Christina Wyman is WAY off. My wife and I homeschooled our three children, so we have a little experience here. Schools have never (in my lifetime) taught children to ‘think.’ Even back when I went to school we were being indoctrinated. Moreover, as a homeschool parent, I’ve found that it is better to instill into the child a desire to learn and give them skills to do that. We did that by encouraging our kids to follow their own interests and showing them how knowing other skills (like reading, writing, math, history, science, research, etc.) would help them figure out the things they were interested in. We never taught them how to ‘think.’ We taught them how to LEARN.” —Texas