It's not Trump who is trampling on rights

In his Feb. 22 letter, Mr. Bartosik sounded a desperate alarm about how our government under Trump is dissolving our rights, rousing us to action with a modification of Maritn Neimoller's famous poem. But I think not only was the pairing of historical events to the present fanciful, it was also blown out of proportion to the point of perhaps qualifying under the heading "Trump Derangement Syndrome." The powers in government are checking each other as they were designed to do and I don't think the country is crumbling because of what is taking place in Washington, D.C.

I don't see our rights being trampled by Trump, but I do see real, tangible rights being trampled by Democrat ideology. For example, a Christian who starts a business to be run in accordance to biblical principles as Martin Luther saw "vocation," is sued for not allowing himself to be conscripted into transactions that he sees as "sinful" per his Bible. The Democrats have made it a platform position to remove gun ownership, literally the "right to self-protection," from law abiding citizens.

Citing as a virtue the killing of the innocent, as abortion doesn't end pregnancy, birth does and abortion denies the "rights" of the pre-born. Students are being forced to disrobe in the presence of the opposite sex to accommodate the latter's subjective "feelings" about themselves.

Please, don't lecture us on how Trump is an imminent danger to our rights when "real right trampling" is actually happening all around us on a daily basis and Democrat politicians are promising more of the same. Smoke screens are used to disguise real intentions and the claim that Trump is a threat to our rights is a smoke screen.

Brian Van Dine

Glendale Heights