Ms. Kratz’s bromide (“Gratitude, Today and Every Day” July 2, 2020) is at best disingenuous and most likely dissembling in her appeal for personal gratitude in our daily lives, which then transitions to a sweeping appeal to blind ourselves to the despicable use of fear and fraud in our body politic. She utilizes the artifice of associating with Mr. Rodgers, Anne Frank and the Lubavitch Rebbe as a benign platform to preface her argument. She suddenly veers to include past and present periods of political unrest to reveal her true intent––we shouldn’t bother with “who is at fault” and “who should be punished.”

Following her “logic,” we should not hold our leader accountable for his actions and his lack of transparency. While humanity has the capacity for greatness, should we blind ourselves to the equal capacity for venality, corruption and dishonesty? Should we be passive in the face of the beating and gassing of peaceful demonstrators to permit a photo opportunity of the president standing in front of a church he doesn’t attend, holding a bible he doesn’t read? Should we ignore the dereliction of duty which has made the U.S. the world epicenter of the pandemic with thousands of lives needlessly sacrificed? Should we sing kumbaya with an administration of lethal incompetence that reeks of the stink of failure and chaos?

Ms. Kratz’s pabulum is worthy of any propaganda apparatchik and contact with reality may release her from her MAGA induced stupor.