As a former Democrat, I’m awestruck by the party’s lurch to the very far left, a total split from the party I once favored.

It’s one thing to see a party move as members age and new blood takes over. It’s another thing entirely to see a party, in a few years, change so radically as to no longer recognize its bedrock beliefs.

I have no idea where Democrats are going. There are easily defined “80-20” issues, and they are on the wrong side of each one. They want open borders, a transparent and destructive scheme to repopulate America with illegals to ensure their party’s majority.

They want to confiscate rich people’s wealth, in the belief that they can spend those billions more intelligently than those who earned them. They despise Donald Trump as a threat to entrenched bureaucrats. There are a dozen other issues like education, taxes and national defense where Democrats have taken positions that are nonsense.

Future elections are critical. To have a wave of Democrats win key offices will endanger our future and the country we want to leave to our children. New York is the poster child for malfeasance. Beware that doesn’t happen to you.

Rich Klitzberg, Boca Raton

Waiting for 2028

The odds of Trump being impeached and convicted are zero.

I’m not sure that even if he invaded Greenland, which he now promises not to do, that 20 GOP senators would vote to convict. Ten voted to do so last time; most are no longer in the Senate.

We need to make sure that turnout against all Republicans, because they are all toadies to Trump, is more than enough to ensure that Democrats control the House and the Senate and tie up the administration with hearings. They all lie, because the MAGA base believes their lies. By 2029, they can all be indicted for perjury and other crimes when Democrats control the DOJ.

Miles W. Rich, Bradenton

Broward schools fall short

The Broward County school system is one of the largest in the nation. With that scale comes complexity, a responsibility for strong financial controls, and transparency to earn public trust. Recent events show the School Board and its leadership fall short.

Most troubling is misappropriation of voter-approved referendum money to raise compensation for teachers and staff. An internal review reveals some funds were given to high-level administrators in bonuses. That’s not what voters approved. While the district has since acted to stop these payments, a serious lack of control was exhibited.

Taxpayers rightly ask, are independent audits being properly performed and reviewed to prevent such errors? Where are the internal controls? Every dollar misspent takes money away from the classroom. Spending public funds should be treated as seriously as writing personal checks.

The district has had successes with its many high-performing schools, respected magnet programs and dedicated educators. What’s needed is strong leadership and integrity.

Broward deserves leaders who anticipate problems and are transparent to the public. The district needs foresight and discipline to provide exceptional education to our students.

Joe Piechura, Fort Lauderdale

A never-ending challenge

Beach cleanups are a Sisyphean task. There’s too much trash. What’s pulled one day is there the next. Reporting the weight of plastic is no longer worthwhile. The world is awash in it. About 9% of all recycled products collected are reused, so in any flow chart of pollution, there are many places where nonprofits can make gains.

Plastic bags can be ironed to create fabric for craft. Gatorade bottles can be collected at parks and melted offsite into souvenir molds (to show reuse). A nonprofit could create a service organization to collect trash from boats in real time (which they now throw overboard). A skimmer boat could be used to pick up plastic in the Intracoastal Waterway. Efforts showing the reuse of recycled products will invigorate the public.

Eric L. Labrador, Miami

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