I, for one, have had it with ‘over-educated idiots’

Switch up the primary calendar

Every four years since 1972, Iowa and New Hampshire have been the first states to participate in the American presidential primary process. Isn’t it time for the other 48 states to take their turns?

We need a rotating schedule to give every state the opportunity to be one of the first two states to vote.

Switching the order of the primaries would bring a much needed, overdue element of fairness to our system by giving each state a period of political relevance. Moving Iowa and New Hampshire out of their unwarranted privileged positions would make the process more representative of the entire nation.

- Jake Pickering, Arcata, California

A sticky problem Texas doesn’t need

We should ditch Texas’ current windshield stickers for auto registration and return to sticking the expiration month and year on the rear license plates. When this silly methodology was introduced years ago, its slogan was, “If they can’t peel it, they can’t steal it.”

But the stickers are now located where the police have difficulty seeing them.

I suspect the current approach makes it much more likely that people can avoid getting their stickers renewed without being cited. And it’s much more of a hassle to scrape off the old sticker, clean the windshield and stick on the new one.

- Judy Jones, Fort Worth

You can’t teach them to be smart

Our country has an epidemic of over-educated idiots. Employment ads demand four-year degrees, but there are some things that no school can teach, such as common sense and creativity. I’ve seen people with impressive degrees who are dysfunctional at applying that knowledge in the workforce.

Unfortunately, the over-educated sometimes get positions in management. They hire more of the same, and the cycle repeats.

- Jack Brocious, Grapevine

Where is the GOP’s loyalty?

I have always looked at a candidate’s history before voting rather than at their party affiliation. I can’t understand how Republicans who I thought believed in patriotism and Christianity could follow a leader who acts in opposition to both.

Christ preached about helping the poor, loving your neighbor and treating others as you would yourself. This administration does the opposite.

President Donald Trump and his allies are separating children from their parents and imprisoning them. They refuse to give them flu shots or assist them when they are ill. Trump disparages people with disabilities and women in general.

Our Republican representatives follow like sheep, dividing us further.

- Debbie Garcia, Keller

The Democratic Party has lost me

As a lifelong Democrat, I just want to know: What the heck?

Lately, it seems as though I am the last man left in America with nothing bad to say about Barack Obama. I was even a supporter of the Clintons before they got insanely wealthy without working and started their own slush fund foundation.

So we Democrats are communists now? Success and wealth are inherently evil now? We are now the party of seizing honest, lawfully earned assets? And in these dangerous times, we’re going to open the border?

My whole life, I have been a liberal. But I’ve got to say goodbye to the Democratic Party.

- David Brown, Stephenville

This story was originally published January 2, 2020 at 5:00 AM.