Dear crackpots,
Please do not shoot Donald Trump — or blow him up, either — or anyone else.
I know, I know, you want to be a hero and hope to gain some notoriety for your pathetic life. You think that you are acting out some American ideal. You are not.
Let us consider that to be an American requires following our Constitution. The Constitution lays out the democratic process for the peaceful transfer of power. Democracy is an imprecise, trial-and-error, frustrating undertaking that requires intelligence and patience. I hear you: It may not be for you.
Elections are a contest of ideas and ideals. They cannot be resolved with the murder of their bearer. So, Trump may be a fraud, a pathological liar, a failed businessman, a failure as a human being, have a cluster B personality disorder, and may glow in the dark, but it is his ideas and ideals that must be challenged by examination and verbal confrontation — not with violence.
Tom Foster, Millcreek
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