Avoid Politics? No Way - New York Times
To the Editor:
Re “Depressed by Politics? Just Let Go” (Op-Ed, March 18):
Of course Arthur C. Brooks, the president of the American Enterprise Institute, advises your readers to avoid political news so we will be happier. Nice try.
If I ignored the news, I wouldn’t know that the American Enterprise Institute hosted Speaker Paul D. Ryan when he unveiled his plan to kick an estimated four million to six million Medicaid beneficiaries off the rolls while providing a tax cut for the rich.
Sorry, Mr. Brooks; I am going to continue to follow what you and your political cronies are doing to Americans, and to resist you at every turn. Now that is happiness.
MARTHA CASEY, ARLINGTON, VA.
To the Editor:
Arthur C. Brooks contends that some people’s depression about politics may be “based on an illusion that something affects us.”
When politics threatens international security, the world economy, values we have cherished and programs that sustain the vulnerable in our communities, aren’t we all affected?
RUTH L. GREENBERG
PHILADELPHIA
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