Senate President Bill Cadman, R-Colorado Springs, speaks on opening day of the 2015 Colorado legislative session at Capitol on Jan. 7. (Andy Cross, The Denver Post)
Re: “Colorado GOP pushes through ‘Parent’s bill of rights,'” Feb. 12 news story.
The Republican-pushed bill for a Parent’s Bill of Rights is an obvious sign of fake conservatism. The essence of real conservatism, from the time of Edmund Burke, is that the stability of society, its security, and its traditions must be preserved. And the American tradition has been a balance — sometimes precarious — between individual freedom and society’s needs. But Republicans, abandoning that arrangement, have for years said individual freedoms always trump society’s needs — it’s your money government takes, your child a public school corrupts, your arsenal government covets, your right to buy GMO, your right to protection from the poor, the immigrants, and the homosexuals. Republicans also promote the notion that society has no standing, no significance. You and yours come first — society be damned — and must be protected against all the enemies out there. Why? Why, to get votes from Republican-conditioned selfish and fearful “victims.”
Daniel W. Brickley,Littleton
This letter was published in the Feb. 20 edition.
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