The (Baby) Boomers seem to be the most active in protesting the new MAGA presidency.

What I think the Flower Children don’t understand is that the Democrats and the original civil rights/anti-war movement have been covertly taken over by the Marxist/Communist faction of the party. 

This takeover began in the late 1970s, when their revolution had failed and they were forced to retreat back into academia. 

There they slowly began forming and indoctrinating their Cultural Marxist ideology to America’s 

youth for decades. This ploy finally gained traction with the millennial generation.

In 2020, we saw the fruits of these divisive ideas lead to the George Floyd riots, or “Peaceful Protests,” as NPR would call them. 

What the boomers don’t understand is that the Communist/Marxists have never been proponents of peace, love, civil rights or the environment.

They just softened their tone and message in the 1960s to rope in the young heart-centered hippies to their pre-existing system of power.

So my advice to the misinformed-but-good-willed Boomers is to get away from the Democrat Party as fast as you can before you’re once again forced to nail up hand-painted signs around Asheville, reminding your party to stop the violence.  

What should the guidelines be for ‘proportionality’ during war?

At a press conference with United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer, President Donald Trump asserted,  

“We have to remember October 7.  It was one of the worst, most violent days in the history of the world.”

It was indeed horrific, but not close to the most violent day in human history. Hamas terrorists killed 1,200 people on October 7. However, the most catastrophic day in the history of human conflict is widely considered to be the night of March 9-10, 1945 — the firebombing of Tokyo, which resulted in 100,000 civilian deaths.

Furthermore, the death tolls from dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki are estimated to be at least 90,000 and 60,000, respectively.

General Curtis LeMay, who directed the firebombing campaign against 67 different Japanese cities, believed that, if the United States lost the war, he and those under his command would’ve been prosecuted as war criminals.

Based on the Hamas proportionality principle guiding Israel’s devastation and starvation of Gaza, what should the punishment have been for incinerating 100,000 Japanese men, women and children in a single night?

Notably, LeMay was rewarded for his service by being appointed U.S. Air Force chief of staff, while Robert McNamara, who served under LeMay during his firebombing campaign, became U.S. secretary of Defense.

Remembering October 7 matters — but inflating it as uniquely horrific erases other episodes of mass violence that dwarf it. If we are serious about condemning atrocities, we should do so with honesty and consistency, not selective memory.

Daily Planet urged to ‘do better’

I just finished reading the Sept. 17–30 edition of the Asheville Daily Planet and have to ask — what were you thinking?

Your front-page article on Kim Roney’s bid for mayor reads more like a campaign press release than objective journalism. We’re told she “came out as queer in 2020” and could become “Asheville’s first queer mayor”—but where’s the scrutiny of her record?

Roney has consistently attacked APD leadership, opposing basic police resources like bulletproof vests and contributing to the de-moralization and staffing crisis that still plagues our police force today. 

She has opposed the creation of a downtown business opportunity zone—a commonsense step toward revitalizing our city. She was previously endorsed by the local Democratic Socialists of America and refuses to face the U.S. flag or recite the Pledge of Allegiance during council meetings.

These facts matter. Voters deserve a complete picture—not a sanitized identity-based profile that ignores Roney’s long track record of hostility toward law enforcement, private enterprise, and American civic traditions. 

Given her record — including support for BLM and the ‘defund the police’ movement — it’s fair to suspect that Roney shares the worldview of far-left ideologues like New York’s Zohran Mamdani. Electing her as mayor would only worsen the dysfunction Asheville is already facing, accelerating the same decline seen in other cities that embraced this brand of radicalism.

And then there’s page four — two letters to the editor, both from out-of-state leftists bashing Trump and Republicans. 

That’s it? It felt more like The New York Times or Citizen-Times than the Daily Planet I used to respect.

Asheville needs real journalism — not agenda-driven fluff pieces. Please do better.

EDITOR’S NOTE: While we disagree with aspects of Fulton’s critique, the Daily Planet will always try harder.