to the editor: Thanks to contributing writer Matt K. Lewis, whose op-ed led me to turn to a contributor to the violent rhetoric in my own living room: my TV streaming services (“The left and the right have united in favor of childish and violent rhetoric” October 24). How many of the plots of movies and television series have increasingly revolved around corrupt, venal and deceitful leaders of the White House, CIA, FBI, military, city or county? And how many of the heroes who rise up to take revenge and fight for freedom and the American way are aggrieved citizens, disrespected or disgraced military veterans, or government agents whose spouses have been murdered or who are experiencing a crisis of conscience?
Is it too far-fetched to imagine that a regular consumer of a diet of just violence could come to consider it normalized? Could some perpetrators of the violence we have seen on the news receive a televised justification? This might be a small ingredient for Lewis' still-warm frog-boiling pot, but we're looking at the bubbles.
Sheldon Roth, Northridge
