Our heirs will suffer for our poor choice
The presidential election is over, yet I sit here with tears in my eyes. These tears are not for Kamala Harris, but for our country.
We are about to enter an unknown era determined by a wannabe dictator who ends his speeches with appGod bless you and God bless the USA.app This manapps god is spelled money and/or power. As his record shows, his entire life has been controlled by these gods.
As a senior veteran who spent two years, two months and two days in Germany and saw the damage caused by tyrants and dictators such as Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini and Josef Stalin, none of whom are heroes in history, my tears are for our heirs.
May God save the USA for all our heirs!
Marlin Culy
New Haven
Path of truth, goodness will finally set nation free
Following the election I, like many, have been struggling with a host of feelings. Finally, I see that, most of all, I feel ashamed.
A president is a mirror to our moral, ethical and societal identity. As I look into that mirror, I am deeply ashamed.
I see a nation that has given up on the idea that we have respect for law. For the first time, we have elected a convicted felon to represent our nation.
The mirror reflects us proclaiming that lying is acceptable behavior. Our stamp of approval has been placed on bullying the weak, mocking the disabled, vulgarity as an acceptable form of discourse. We approve of calling others vermin, less than human.
I see people who claimed the name appChristianapp abandon Christ to follow a man and a movement directly in opposition to everything Jesus taught and lived.
Is that who we truly want to be? A majority of our electorate have said a resounding, appYes!app Then let us not punish our children for lying. Let us seek out the disabled so we can mock them. Our neighbors who are not like us let us bully. Embrace racism, call people names, be as vulgar as you want for that is what a majority of our electorate has said is just fine in our society.
But I reject these notions.
I believe truth matters now more than ever. To seek truth, to speak truth, to desire truth is the way to live our lives. We need a rebirth of this commitment in ourselves and in our nation.
I believe kindness matters more now than ever. To see another and respond to them in kindness, to teach ourselves and our children to practice kindness in all our interactions is the way to rebuild what we have destroyed.
I believe doing justice for the weak, the marginalized, the downtrodden, redeems a society and is a sign of strength. I believe the rule of just law is an essential marker of a viable community.
If you, as I, believe that virtue can overcome vice, that kindness is more powerful than cruelty, that the light of truth is greater than the darkness of lies, that justice must become a reality for all, then we must boldly live an opposition life. For it is not with anger that we shall overcome. It is by remaking our lives into living examples of the virtues and values we hold most dear.
We shall overcome. Despair not, for we can choose the path of truth and goodness, the path that will set us free.
Kevin Boyd
Fort Wayne
Gracious losers
Democrats may have lost this election but they took the high road in again setting the example of how you lose with grace.
Jantina Eshleman
Fort Wayne
