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Speak Out allows readers to comment on the issues of the day. Email Speak Out at speakout@southtownstar.com or call 312-222-2427. Please limit comments to 30 seconds or about 120 words and give your first name and your hometown.

I watched as these wackadoodle, MAGA follower, QAnon supporters stood in Dealey Plaza in Dallas for hours waiting for JFK Jr. to reappear right where his father was assassinated, thinking that he was going to be Trump’s vice presidential pick for 2024. Has the whole country gone really this crazy? It would almost be funny if it weren’t so disgraceful, disheartening and pathetic. Will people ever open their eyes and realize we only have one party in this country that is working for the people at this point? The other party has gone totally into crazy destruction and denial.

Janet, Tinley Park

To Bob from Oak Forest. You say Biden wants to turn the U.S. into the U.S.S.R. I think you forgot who used to buddy up to Putin, it sure wasn’t Biden. Remember how Donald Trump took Putin’s word over his own security force in Helsinki. He also liked to cozy up to other tinpot dictators like the North Korean Kim Jong Un.

JK, Tinley Park

Some say I should have more respect for conservative Christians, but I already do. If you are just a run-of-the-mill, everyday, average believer who reads the Bible, goes to church and pray, I never did and never will have anything against you. But if you claim to be an apologetic, born-again evangelical who possesses truth and your religion is the only real religion and everybody else is wrong and stupid, then I will attack you and force you and challenge you to bring forth your supposed evidence to prove it. I’m going to show you the same disrespect you give me as an atheistic liberal.

Marv, Bridgeview

Why do people of color, not all, think that the country is shortchanging them. They receive free medical, free food stamps, free schooling yet they want more. Only in America this is available. County your blessings.

Mr. G, Chicago

Progressive Democrats, moderate Democrats, have really worked my last nerve trying to past President Biden’s $1.75 trillion bill. I normally do not agree with attention grabber Sen. Joe Manchin, but the Democrats should have passed the infrastructure bill and later iron out their differences on the smaller public works bill. With several Democrats running for governor and other offices at the same time, the progressive and moderates couldn’t get their act together. Makes the whole party look as if they’re sliding down a slippery road.

BJ, Hazel Crest

I had mail delivered today, but it was for someone in another apartment in my building. I also got a letter for someone who lives in Joliet, about 50 miles away. Do you think somebody is doing the wrong job? Mail carriers get a pension, they get hospitalization, sick pay, maternity leave if they’re female. How much do they get paid?

Ronald, Oak Lawn

How long is this construction going to continue between Justice and Willow Springs on Archer and 79th. This is some kind of government project, nothing ever gets done, there’s only one lane to go west now on Archer and 79th and I see no improvement in the future. If I lived in Willow Springs or Justice, I would vote out every politician in the entire township to put an end to this silliness.

Tom, Burbank

What does the Burbank Police Department do? I buy city stickers for all my vehicles but yet half the vehicles on my block do not have Burbank vehicle stickers and some houses have five dogs. They bark all day, all night. You call the police department they say “not my job, not my job. It’s a free world they can park wherever they want.” Why don’t we defund the Burbank Police Department because they don’t do anything, especially on Central Avenue on 77th. We have another year coming up where I have to buy my vehicle sticker yet everybody else doesn’t.

Dave, Burbank

Our supply chain for Christmas isn’t looking too good. Under Biden’s caring leadership, he’s assigned Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo to look into it. So, as reported in the Southtown, they will host a summit next year to build up stronger supply chains. That won’t help us this Christmas. As usual, the Dems are a day late and a dollar short.

RHS, Oak Forest

Well the un-American race baiter Colin Kaepernick is saying the Black NFL players are slaves of the NFL. Wow. I don’t think that slaves are paid multimillion dollars a year. Stop making a fool of yourself. You didn’t think this one through. With all your comments over the years you don’t think anything through.

Bob, Frankfort

I’ve lived in Oak Forest all my life. Bobby Rush is supposedly my representative yet I can’t recall a single occasion when he has visited my little city. I’m not even sure if he knows that we live in his district. So much for representation!

Joan, Oak Forest

Mayor Lightfoot, if you are going to clean house at the Chicago Park District you need to get rid of everyone including board President Avis LaValle, who is tainted as much as CEO Michael Kelly. LaValle is using him as a scapegoat for her failures not keeping watch on the park district because she surely had to have known what was going. She can’t say I didn’t know anything. She has been around for over 30 years cleaning up Daley’s messes and she knows where the skeletons are buried.

Geri, Tinley Park

I believe we should have a Go Fund Me page for the professional baseball players and football players so they can get a haircut and get their ears trimmed.

Don, Oak Lawn