Letters to the Editor (Oct. 9, 2025)

Evil will not prevail

Editor:

There is a saying that says “absolute power corrupts absolutely.” This is a quotation by the 19th century British politician Lord Acton. And if you’ll indulge me for a moment, there is nothing new under the sun.

Morality is a situational thing in today’s culture. I don’t think this is a surprise to any one.

People complain about our politicians but, we are the ones who elect them. The apathy that accompanies elections is daunting. Today, however, there is a glimmer of hope, starting with our young people. It’s happening on college campuses and other places too. Young people are getting their voice and able to express their faith in God without having to feel strange or outcast.

I remember the start of this silliness in the Obama era. The mantra was that we had elected the first Black president. Well that was partially correct. But the thing that stuck out to me was a change in how things were done.

Saying Merry Christmas was seen as offensive and saying happy holidays replaced it. The voices of deviant behavior got louder. Values that are my core were, like Girl Scouts for girls and Boy Scouts for boys, are no longer in fashion.

Absolute power came in the door and morality went out the window. I was expected to swallow the new wave of values that where being peddled knowing that in the case of deviant behavior, it was nothing new, but that now I am supposed to accept it. No questions asked.

Well, I ask you: would you buy a used car without asking questions or taking on a test drive? Would you undergo surgery without asking something about the outcome? Would you change your religion without studying and inquiring about the tenets of that religion?

There was a push to equate human rights with deviant behavior. I could never square one with the other. This corruption of my values by elected politicians is an affront to me.

My Judeo-Christian values is the legacy I will leave for my children. Nothing else really matters.

This issue of corruption has it cost. While on the outside it looks like corruption is attractive and beneficial to the individual a price must be paid. If not while you are in this world, certainly when there is an accountability in the next.

Evil will never prevail.

Dan Garza

Los Lunas

Opinion of Charlie Kirk

Editor:

About Charlie Kirk and the whole free speech uproar: Until recently I had no idea who Charlie Kirk was.

Like many others, I feel deeply unsettled by his death and I sympathize with his family. However, since his assassination I have been reading about him and, truth be told, he was not a person I would invite into my home or want to associate with.

He was an unapologetic racist and misogynist and espoused hateful views about so many ethnic and racial groups that I cannot, given limitations of space available, begin to list here.

So I am actually ashamed for this country, as a whole, for the amount of recrimination and bullying that hundreds, if not thousands, of Americans have suffered for offering their honest opinions on the man.

The United States used to be a better place. I remember the 1960s and for all the discord (and yes, the violence) the country emerged a better place. Now I feel we are sliding back into the 1950s.

Charlie Kirk was not a hero and it is disappointing that we are allowing him to be treated as such.

James Mohr

Belen