To the Editor
Karl Rove recently wrote, “The New York Times ran a series suggesting he was unfit for office”. And that, “an anonymous psychiatrist diagnosed the candidate’s megalomania.” Rove added, “He presents in speech and action striking and alarming evidence of a mind, not entirely sound.” The candidate Rove references is not Donald Trump but William Jennings Bryan, Democrat Presidential Candidate 1896.
And, here we are again, with a post presidential election that has gone beyond the pal. It can be described as manic, lacking self- restraint and civility, ludicrous, outrageous, pointless, hypocritical and damaging to this nation. Essentially, it is an unending national exercise reduced to its absurdities and, it is apparent the loudest critics have the most to lose. Serious people do not act in a such a manner.
The news media, print, visual, digital openly displays its cognitive biases and deep hatreds resulting in it losing its objectivity and hence credibility. Coincidentally, does anyone really care what the self- adoring set, paid handsomely for pretending to be other people, have to say?
To test the level of hypocrisy by the leading critics of main stream media, Hollywood and Washington, consider what one author wrote. “How one responds to the moral question is predictable as to how they will answer to the empirical.”
As a voter, taxpayer, citizen I am disgusted, disillusioned and disappointed with all this political chicanery. My belief is that there are a greater number of rational everyday citizens, simply trying to put food on their table, that do as well. The politicization of everything translates into disaffected voters because the non-zero-sum game being foisted on them, only leads to “we the people” lose, and the losses are writ large. Our national agenda suffers from drift, weakened in its efficacy and accuracy because we are not focused and united as a people. Thus, the appropriate response can be summed up in this often-applied quote, “We get the government we deserve.”
Dennis Petrucelli
Village of Bonnybrook
