{"id":781,"date":"2025-06-29T11:01:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T11:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/audiomateria.com\/?p=781"},"modified":"2025-07-04T19:24:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T19:24:22","slug":"megan-schraders-call-for-trump-protests-is-dangerous-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/audiomateria.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/29\/megan-schraders-call-for-trump-protests-is-dangerous-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Megan Schrader\u2019s call for Trump protests is dangerous (Letters)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Calling for Trump protests ‘dangerous’ and met with pessimism<\/h4>\n

Re: “A common cause: What would it actually take to force Trump to resign?<\/a>” June 22 commentary<\/p>\n

Using the example of a protest in Puerto Rico (with a population less than 1% of the U.S. total), where more than 1 million people protested for days and nights, banging \u201cpots and pans\u201d over what they felt were \u201cdisgusting messages,\u201d is a poor example to use when calling for millions of Americans to protest over illegal migrant rights in our country.<\/p>\n

That aside, as a moderate independent voter, I find it disturbing that a major newspaper editor would call a sitting president \u201ca danger to our economy, a threat to our freedoms, an ally to our enemies and a constant source of lies and misinformation.\u201d That language, combined with the intent to incite millions of Americans to take to the streets by calling for a protest over a controversial political position (that millions of conservatives support), is dangerous given the extremely polarized politics we have today.<\/p>\n

One may want, and even call for, a \u201cpeaceful\u201d protest, but realistically we cannot expect millions of Donald Trump supporters, who voted him into office, to idly stand by and not counter-protest. Riots, destruction, injuries, and deaths would seem inevitable. \u00a0And, at the end of the day, does anyone really believe that a protest, such as Megan Schrader calls for, would actually convince Trump to resign?<\/p>\n

Jim Malec, Roxborough Park<\/em><\/p>\n

I read the article Sunday about what it might take to peacefully depose President Donald Trump. Finding a \u201ccore value\u201d right now in the United States would be very difficult. Using Puerto Rico\u2019s demonstrations doesn\u2019t seen to rise to the level we need. It is a small island with nothing like the population of the mainland United States.<\/p>\n

A small island could easily find core values and share them among one another. They are small. We are large.<\/p>\n

Do you think book burning would do it? No, we\u2019ve already had that. How about bodily autonomy? Nope, we had it and didn\u2019t like it. First and Fifth Amendment rights are gone, folks. Voting rights are being erroded. How about a full-blown concentration camp? Been there, done that at Amache in Colorado during WWII. Perhaps gas chambers? What stopped the Nazis from destroying Europe? The violent intervention of the U.S. armed forces. What kept the Confederate states from forming their own country? The violent Civil War fought to keep our nation whole.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think we have any core values any longer. I\u2019m definitely not advocating for another civil war, but I\u2019m not sure banging drums and pans outside Mar-a-lago is going to solve our problem. Our democracy is great, but can we keep it?<\/p>\n

Betty Green,\u00a0Colorado Springs<\/em><\/p>\n

“No King’s Day” was a representation of liberals as self-absorbed, ideological and self-deluded. Liberals who suck at the teat of a pathetic liberal mouthpiece like The Denver Post are nothing more than useful idiots to the left ideology. They’ve been indoctrinated by left-leaning schools, woke companies and liberal news outlets. Donald Trump a king? Give me a break. Trump is the only thing keeping this country from descending into a socialistic, pathetic shadow of itself.<\/p>\n