The Patriot Post® · Reader Comments

Editor’s Note: Thank you for sending comments on our news, policy, and opinion — we review every one of them. Here are a few reader perspectives, which don’t necessarily reflect those of The Patriot Post.

Re: “Fight for Election Day, Not Election Season”

I wholeheartedly agree that we should have an Election Day, and I think Election Day should be a national holiday where voting commences at 6 AM and goes until 10 PM, allowing for everyone who has to work a chance to get to the polling place. That said, Republicans, conservatives, and libertarians must all get better at voting under the rules that currently exist. Suppose this Election Day issue never gets to the Supreme Court, where there are never any guarantees anyway. How much further behind should everyone else fall to the progressive Left before trying to catch up? By the way, as soon as the Right is better at the leftists’ game then they are, they’ll run to a solution, like Election Day. —New Jersey

Bulk-mailing of unsolicited election ballots enables voter fraud and is the greatest threat to our democratic republic. Because mass mail-in ballots cannot be properly validated in a timely manner, election integrity in some locations has become seriously compromised. Mail-in ballots must be strictly limited to absentee U.S. citizens unable to vote in person such as the disabled and deployed military. Early voting in areas with greatly expanded populations may be necessary to ensure all valid voters have the opportunity to cast their ballots in person. In such cases, limited early in-person voting can and should be established to avoid inordinately inconvenient waiting times on the federally established November Election Day. —Florida

Thank you for hitting the bullseye that the conservatives’ first priority should be to uphold the constitutional language on elections. I am making that point in my sphere at every opportunity, but I would love to have suggestions of how to effect a grassroots movement in that direction. I would very much like to have a conversation with those who suggest we apply the wrong methods to achieve our righteous ends. —Virginia

Re: “Did the Blue State Exodus Kill the Red Wave?”

I don’t find it at all hard to swallow the idea that Democrat voters who move to “red” states are so dense that they continue to vote Democrat, even when the results of “woke” policies figure into their decisions to move. I have talked with some who moved here to Arizona from California, and they still don’t see a connection between their politics and the policy results from which they fled. They still dogmatically vote Democrat even when that connection is pointed out to them. —Arizona

Re: “Gavin Gives ‘Em Gas Pains”

The oil industry needs its own Elon Musk, someone willing to monkey-wrench the California Democrats. If but one major oil company said, “Fine, we’ll just stop selling in California,” then prices would skyrocket, at least until other companies stepped in to meet the demand. Perhaps the shock of the impromptu economics lesson would finally make an impression on the perennially gullible voters of California. And if the remaining companies had the intestinal fortitude to follow suit with the boycotting company, there’s no way the legislature could stand against them. —Georgia

Re: “Biden Bails Out Big Labor With $36B in Taxpayer Funds”

How is bailing out the union retirement plans from mismanagement any different than forgiving student loans? Where does the president get his authority to unilaterally take from the public treasury to bail out the unions? —Texas

Re: “Planned Dependency”

Maybe those women aged 25-34 are quitting paid employment to invest in the future. God knows that children need a full-time parent in the home to be there for them, especially with the way the schools are. Any love they can give to their children will benefit both them and society. So good for them! Low wages don’t benefit the economy. Not when two people working full time can’t even afford a mortgage. And how can families have children when wages are so low? Higher wages are a response to inflation, not the cause of it. The causes of inflation are the government’s war on business, especially energy, and the government’s expansion of the money supply through reckless spending, which is worsened by our trade deficit. —California

As Ben Franklin stated: “I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.” That’s the difference between him and Biden. Ben understood the economy and the common man. Biden, not so much! —Michigan

Re: “Nonbinary Biden Admin Thief Finally Fired”

The problem is NOT the sexual activities of consenting adults done in private that have no bearing on their professional performance. The problem is the depravity that celebrates deviant sexual behavior also justifies dismissing restraints of conduct required for professional performance. If the LGBTQIA+ community sincerely wants to be a respected part of society, its members must live by integrity and grace. —Missouri