Editor, Gazette-Journal:
A letter in last week’s paper (“Seven steps,” Aug. 22 Readers Write) is an example of a repeating editorial trend: living in the past. Last week we time-traveled to the mid-1950s and were instructed on “How to Identify Communists in Our Midst” as presented by a Virginia State Representative to a Breakfast Club.
Communism is an economic construct where people communally own all the means of production: farms, factories, mines, etc. People also have free access to the articles created by those production vectors. All people are equal, and without government or currency.
Every adult I know has currency, most have jobs of differing requirements and pay scales, some are retired with differing levels of wealth. Most own cars, some own homes, others pay rent. Some own businesses and employ others to work in exchange for currency. We have government to create and enforce laws, which protect people and their belongings. We pay the government to perform actions that we, ...