Letters to the editor

Zachary Z. E. Bennett
Hagerstown

You're right, but don't stop trying

To the editor:

Michael Myers, your observation that "the names are different, but the views are all the same" and "No matter who's elected, nothing changes," are absolutely correct. But your non-voting response is totally wrong.

You've learned why these two parties are referred to as the establishment government. Voting for either won't save decent jobs (like yours) or America's industrial base from this establishment's apparent global socialistic economic agenda. Truly, a vote for either is a wasted vote.

Adopt a grass-roots party; work, promote and vote for it. Please don't do nothing. "The only thing necessary for evil to succeed is ..."

Stanley Kneiss
Hagerstown

In a dictatorship, nobody gets to vote

To the editor:

Dear Michael,

You say your vote doesn't matter. I suppose everyone feels that way at one time or another.

In a dictatorship, one person, or a group decides all matters, with everyone else subject to obey, with no opportunity to object. I think of the oppressed countries of the Middle East.

We've had such groups in the United States, in which one person calls the shots and the rest of the people agree, or they're sent out of the group.

Democracy, with everyone having a chance to express an opinion, is a very precious state of affairs.

In our country, you can state your views. Maybe no one listens, but you have a chance to express them.

The letters to the editor provide this - glad, mad quarrelsome, encouraging. They get printed because Americans have a free press. Not all countries have that.

The people who fashioned our country tried to fashion a government everyone could share in. Your vote gives you the right to share.

If you don't vote, don't criticize. Your non-vote didn't register! I wouldn't miss a chance to vote and neither would my husband.

Agnes Jurgens
Chambersburg, Pa.