{"id":129900,"date":"2026-05-20T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/think-for-yourself-not-slogans\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T17:50:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T23:50:17","slug":"think-for-yourself-not-slogans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/think-for-yourself-not-slogans\/","title":{"rendered":"Think for yourself, not slogans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft naviga-size-small\" data-naviga-align=\"left\" data-naviga-size=\"small\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=3ba4ce41-a358-5d9b-b360-ebd942a1f4df&#038;function=cover&#038;type=preview&#038;source=false&#038;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=3ba4ce41-a358-5d9b-b360-ebd942a1f4df&#038;function=cover&#038;type=preview&#038;source=false&#038;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=3ba4ce41-a358-5d9b-b360-ebd942a1f4df&#038;function=cover&#038;type=preview&#038;source=false&#038;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=3ba4ce41-a358-5d9b-b360-ebd942a1f4df&#038;function=cover&#038;type=preview&#038;source=false&#038;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"1680\" height=\"958\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>ICE is the Gestapo. Trump is Hitler. Trans women are women. Israel is the aggressor. Capitalism is the problem. We live on stolen land. No one in the country is illegal. Abortion is good. The homeless aren\u2019t all outdoor drug users. Silence is violence. Two words: America sucks.<\/p>\n<p>Or,<\/p>\n<p>ICE is a police force. Trump is an authoritarian president. There are only two sexes. Israel has fought only defensive wars. Capitalism has lifted more poor people out of poverty than any other economic system. We live on conquered land, as all people do. Those who do not follow immigration laws do so illegally. Abortion is not \u201ca good.\u201d The homeless use drugs much like the rest of us, but we don\u2019t do so in public. Physical violence involves touching; no one does time for \u201cthe silent treatment.\u201d America has the world\u2019s largest economy and most powerful military while being the least racist, most successful multiracial democracy in human history. Two words: America rocks.<\/p>\n<p>Wearing costumes and sharing outrage is a performative act that no emotionally sober adult respects. Obviously, both sides have lost the ability to adult, depending on time and place.<\/p>\n<p>Remember: Evil is just the absence of good, and acting out your outrage and resentment is not good. We do not live in either a fascist or communist regime. Vote, stop showing off. It\u2019s annoying and self-evidently counterproductive, as the Patriot parades after Trump lost were, while the Critical Social Justice protests contributed to Kamala\u2019s loss.<\/p>\n<p>God bless America.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Richard Feit<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-381511e8d67d2cd1d6ba234527710e19\">Cortez<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>is the Gestapo. Trump is Hitler. Trans women are women. Israel is the aggressor. Capitalism is the problem. We live on stolen land. No one in the country is illegal. Abortion is good. The homeless aren\u2019t all outdoor drug users. Silence is violence. Two words: America sucks. Or, ICE is a police force. Trump [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5820,5819],"tags":[125],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-129900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters-to-the-editor","category-opinion","tag-newsletter-opinion"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130025,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129900\/revisions\/130025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129900"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=129900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}