Las Vegas Sun

March 28, 2024

Letter to the editor:

No point in assigning blame

Regarding Brian Greenspun’s July 15 article “Boomers to blame for the mess we’re in,” I have one thing to say: Quit beating yourself up. I’m from the generation before you and could say it was our fault because we allowed extremists to take over at our universities. Remember Cal-Berkeley in 1963 and a student named Mario Savio? It began with him and progressed to Kent State University, then on and on. At the same time, extreme liberal professors were infiltrating our schools, beginning at major universities then expanding to high schools and grade schools.

Now we have socialists screaming the loudest and dividing the Democratic Party. Most people understand that socialism doesn’t work. It has failed in every country that tried it. To quote late British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, “the problem with socialism is you eventually run out of someone else’s money.” We need to be careful to not play into their hands and divide the Democratic Party.