About the publisher: Don’t you wish you were naive again?

Before you knew it, provincial festival officials would slaughter a 9-year-old’s goat to teach her a lesson?

Before you knew that a man who openly bragged about grabbing women by the genitals would be elected president and declare after his term that top secret government documents belonged to him?

When you thought only doctors practiced medicine, only to find out that legislators, governors and judges have passed laws allowing them to practice their profession?

And before the Tennessee legislature, in a state I lived and loved years ago, showed magnanimity and condescension toward two black colleagues?

Don’t you wish we didn’t have to know these things?

Melanie Hinson, San Pedro

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About the publisher: For those struggling with defining critical race theory, the Tennessee House has just offered a graduate seminar in applied critical race theory.

However, the benefits to the nation when introduced to suspended Tennessee state representatives Justin Jones and Justin Pearson are enormous. These great orators share a just moral compass and are our future philosophers and teachers of right thinking, rational criticism, and the justice our founders originally sought but failed to achieve.

I am an 82 year old non-religious white male. But I have to admit that we are “blessed” to have these two people in public life.

Eldon Milnes, Long Beach

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About the publisher: Her point is well made that a “government in which the majority can silence those with opposing views is in serious trouble.”

Let’s apply that sentiment to disruptive students who want to silence guest speakers on college campuses, or school officials who want to silence parents in their meetings.

Esther Thacker, Laguna Hills..

About the publisher: Republicans in Tennessee, and all their like-minded colleagues elsewhere, have to live a life without direction.

They confuse the medical, religious, and deeply personal issues surrounding abortion with the real guns that killed three beautiful, healthy children and three staff members at a Nashville school.

These Republicans will stop at nothing to save a viable embryo capable of becoming a full-fledged person, but they will not do the same to take action that will surely save lives by getting rid of these offensive weapons .

I can’t sleep at night and I wonder how that is possible.

Harry Schragg, Reseda