The plurality of opinions expressed in The Public Forum and Opinion sections of The Salt Lake Tribune educates and shows or state’s diversity. That is good.
For example, I like Tom Huckin’s endorsement of more lenient immigration policies and cringe at Rainer Huck’s take on bulldozing roads on public land so the “disabled and elderly” can see wilderness. Or cringe at Phil Lyman’s inferred racism against Utah Navajos. (It’s true, Phil, San Juan whites didn’t invent racism, they just practice it.)
My education entails parsing the absurdities. Take, for example, Mitt Romney’s talk, as reported by The Tribune.
He is against the “socialist” (democratic-socialist) agenda of Bernie Sanders. (He’s right there.) And he is against “The Green New Deal” of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey, but remains silent on the unfathomable crisis of climate change that will, without alleviation, result in catastrophe of the biosphere.
What does Mitt believe? He trashes medical care for all, be it his RomneyCare as expressed in ObamaCare (good, in my opinion), or Sanders’ “Medicare for all” (impolitic, in my opinion). Romney’s conservative (Republican?) politics is vague. His flip-flop rhetoric emanates politics of the absurd, as do Donald Trump’s tweets tying the truth into knots in order to mask his autocratic preferences.
Richard H. Keller, Salt Lake City