How will you feel?
To those who voted for Donald Trump I have questions:
How will you feel when —
Your child’s best friend, or your fellow church member, is detained and deported?
Your athletic strong daughter has her genitals examined because she doesn’t look like “a real girl?”
When prices at Walmart go up because of tariffs?
When fruit, vegetables and meat are unavailable because workers are deported?
When your snap and medical cards are cut?
All the social media are owned and censored by the billionaires who have bought Donald Trump?
When you get pulled over by a cop because your a little too brown?
When your child’s school library is purged of treasured books?
When our BLM land and national forests where you hunt and fish are sold to private developers and industries?
When pandemics of Scarlet Fever or polio comes and no vaccines are available to your children?
Learn to be skeptical and critical of what you are told by the internet or your local newspapers.
Local newspapers across the U.S. are being ought by organizations who have a clear right wing bias. Question your friends. Question your pastors. Learn to think independently. Question how and by who your Christianity is being taught to you. Read Jesus’ word (his words, not Peter’s or Paul’s) for yourself. Read the U.S. Constitution for yourself and question why it was written and amended the way it is. Thought it couldn’t happen here. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. Be vigilant.
Mogi Hogle
Española
‘Right on’
I live in Albuquerque. I read the Rio Grande SUN, an Espanola-based newspaper. I read the Cal Thomas column in the Opinion section of the May 29, 2025 Rio Grande SUN. The column related to the matter of “hate.” The column was “right on” on the subjects covered. It was inciteful, well written, correct and needed to be said.
I have often for years in my discussions with others recited the Hammerstein musical’s South Pacific song, “You’ve Got To Be Carefully Taught. I found it to be very meaningful in the musical and in every day life. I was happy to see it spelled out in the Thomas column. I am Jewish and have been over my many years (I am now 87) been very much involved in arenas of anti-Semitism, Israel, and the West Bank and Gaza. My wife, now deceased, was a Holocaust survivor and we were married in Israel in 1963. I have a special interest in the Israel-Gaza issues.
I simply wanted to write this email to thank Mr. Thomas for the column, and to thank the Rio Grande SUN for publishing it.
Jonathan B. Sutin
Albuquerque