To the Editor:
Perhaps it is time for someone to sit down with “the great unifier” currently occupying the White House and explain some things to him.

For starts: Mr. Biden, when you have razor-thin margins in both houses of Congress, you do not unify the country by ramming down the throats of its people, a far-left agenda that approximately half of those people vehemently oppose.

When you do not get your way in the Congress and the Supreme Court, you do not throw temper tantrums and vow to change the rules to eliminate institutions such as the filibuster and the Electoral College. The filibuster and so-called “gridlock” are there because great numbers of the voters and their representatives are opposed to certain Congressional proposals and they are intended to prevent dictatorial regimes from ruling without restraint.

When you give speeches blasting your opponents for “insensitivity,” you do not hide the fact that hundreds of illegals coming into this country have died trying to get in, and some illegals have brought in vast amounts of dangerous drugs that have killed tens of thousands of young Americans.

When you are going to angrily denounce everyone who is opposed to your agenda as “fascists,” you do not deliver a speech against a blood-red backdrop with two armed military men in full view — a scene that is right out of North Korea or Nazi Germany.

What has become evident is that under Joe Biden, the Democrats’ philosophy can be stated in three maxims:

— Chaos is security;

— Hatred is love;

— Control is freedom.

And, if these statements summon up memories of books such as “1984,” “Animal Farm,” “Darkness at Noon,” “Rhinoceros,” and a number of other anti-fascist, anti-Communist novels — a whole series of alarms should be going off.

Michael Nardacci

Albany

Editor’s note: Although the Electoral College is not named in the United States Constitution, because it was part of the framers’ original plan — a compromise between a popular vote and an election in Congress to choose the president — a constitutional amendment would be required to change the process. The expansion of voting rights, the ratification of the Twelfth Amendment, and states’ use of popular votes to determine appointment of electors have all changed the process. According to the National Archives, more than 700 proposals have been introduced in Congress, over the past two centuries, to reform or eliminate the Electoral College with the majority of Americans in favor of abolishing it.

On the filibuster, original Senate rules required a simple majority vote to cut off debate. The rule was changed in 1806 after Vice President Aaron Burr argued it was redundant, which then inadvertently gave way to unlimited debate, which meant a bill might never go to vote. The Senate, in 1917, passed the cloture rule so that a filibuster could be broken with a two-thirds majority. Then, in 1975, the Senate changed that to three-fifths of all senators, meaning 60 of 100 senators are needed to pass a law. Long speeches are no longer used to filibuster; rather, if 41 or more senators threaten a filibuster, the majority leader can refuse to call a vote.