Editor:
I agree that a compassionate, supportive and responsive community is a good ideal (Mailbox, Feb. 2). History doesn’t show that happens just yet. Meanwhile, I am worried that resisters to bullies and tyrants may not have the support of our whole communities.
We have just elected a bully who surely knows how to take advantage of weakness, as he has demonstrated his whole life. We knew that he was unfit to be president because his department heads and staff closest to him told us that repeatedly. We know that he tried to stay in office by attempting to bully state election officials and causing a coup in the capital. We know that he stole classified documents to fantasize that he was a powerful man, or maybe to sell to our enemies. We had a choice between a decent, accomplished civil servant and a convicted criminal and we chose horribly wrong. That shows tremendous weakness that he and his fellow cronies know how to exploit.
I do hope that he leaves when his term is up this time and his cronies leave with him, but I don’t believe in fairy tales. I think he will try to be a dictator, or leave the country in crisis. We will need to push back against his excesses as soon as they happen. If all of us together resist, we may succeed at least cost. Otherwise, we may repeat the lessons of history. United we stand, divided we fall.
Dennis Whitcomb, Blue Lake
This article appears in Step Aside Prop. 47, Proposition 36 Has Arrived.
Agree.
What I noticed…..no one seems to give a crap at all about anything.
Folks seem so weak, submissive, truly uninformed and willingly so, or as with most I’ve tried to speak with…..”it’s too scary.there’s nothing I can do”.
I’m so fed up with all these whiny, insecure folks who are as responsible for the downfall of this country as are the most corrupt politicians we now own….bought and paid for.
I’m from the generation who actually did something about the horrors of this country.
We did the best we could.
We won major battles….but now they are all gone or soon will be while whiny bitches sit around watching karcrashidians and posting online instead of doing anything worthwhile.
I hate this country and damn near everyone in it.
Good to be near death.
Everyone I know “gives a crap”. And the leaders of this country, from local to national level are pushing back with all their might. Cases against Mr. Trump are already before the Supreme Court. Several of executive orders have been stalled by Federal judges. Demonstrations are happening around the country. If you have some constructive ideas on what more we citizens can do, please say.