To the Editor:
I have never been as joyful about the outcome of a presidential election as I was when Joseph Biden and Kamala Harris accepted the mantle of president and vice president elect.
Ended is an orchestrated attack on the structure and soul of America done to feed the mental instability of Donald Trump’s pathological narcissism. He is incapable of forming a plan or thinking beyond self gratification; a chronic liar who created chaos in order to appear as a savior. Many millions lost health insurance, immigrant children were separated from parents and caged, global warming was denied credence, dropping out of the World Health organization and NATO was advocated, environmental laws were overturned, oil drilling in protected land was fostered among many other things; not forgetting Trump was denied access to Great Britain, America began to lose dominance in world affairs and Trump became a laughing stock and clown to the international community.
More administration members are convicted felons than under any other president.
The dumbing of America became real, led by a man who once said the airports were closed during the Revolutionary War, our military members are losers and urges everyone in Georgia to vote June 5 (actual date January 5). His lack of grasp of history and basic educational fundamentals was appalling and he blamed Democrats and liberals for the types of malfeasances he himself conducted. Most shocking is the Republican monolith that backs Trump and the near 50 percent of the populace that backs everything Trump says or does.
I was born when FDR and Truman were presidents, raised as an Eisenhower Republican, mistrustful of Kennedy due to family pressure as I began to pay some attention to politics. I was all for Nixon when he promised to resume bombing Hanoi which brought an end to nightly attacks on my camp in Vietnam. But he also proved to be a snake.
Today’s Republican Party bears little resemblance to that of my formative years. The G.W. Bush presidency and the rush to attack Iraq caused me, as a war veteran, to become an Independent. A combination of the loss of the independent Party in Florida (papers not filed properly) and my instinctive long-standing dismissal of everything Trump pushed me over the edge to fight for change.
The last Republican I voted for was John McCain. I voted for Bill Cinton and Obama for his second term. I remember well the Obama steps, criticized all the way, which pulled us out of a serious recession and started the economic recovery that Trump credits himself for accomplishing. I cannot be a Republican again after the actions of senators like Mitch McConnell who refused to bring scores of House passed bills before the senate. I was nauseated by Trump then blaming Democrats for doing nothing.
I’m advocating the mail in voting which just took place. Republicans are against it because, as even Trump said, the more people who vote prevent Republican victory. That party’s gerrymandering is another indication of the truth of the statement. Republicans seem to do little more than strive to maintain power.
It has been pointed out many times by historians that in the past decades Republican leadership leads to recession. Every economic recovery was under Democratic administrations.
Trump is history. He never was a Republican. Remember him saying in a pre-campaign interview that if he were to run for president it would be as a Republican because they are stupidly easy to manipulate? Its in taped archives.
Trump’s party is Trump. Let’s never see it again.
Don Eriksson
Cherry Hill Villas
