A couple of weeks ago, a young man evoked an optimistic attitude about the future. He stated he was involved with Climate Action Network and appears to want to make his and our world a better place. I wished him luck in the context of early 2025, while asserting things having gotten nothing but worse for decades leading up to the imminent inauguration of a president with very disturbing executive and legislative intentions.
Here we are, and my ominous assertions have become all too real. Who voted for this? Well, among the 77 million who did, indeed, vote for “this,” I assume includes Mr. Jonathan Panton. Having read his letter [It’s Morning in America Again, Viewpoints, Jan. 29], stating how “blessed” he feels about the election results, and claiming the outcome as a “resounding” victory, and how “eloquently” the president spoke of things to come: Yikes!
We are all entitled to our personal opinions, Mr. Panton. However, we are not entitled to our own facts. Your cherished president is, in fact, a convicted felon. He has, in fact, been found liable for sexual assault and ordered to pay his accuser $5 million. He has, in fact, not at all eloquently, denigrated Gold Star military families, accused Mexicans of typically being drug pushers and rapists (the supreme irony, huh?), mocked disabled people and so on.
In his first 10 days in office, he has created chaos, signing executive orders that are blatantly illegal, subverting the rule of law, ignoring constitutionally given rights, and blaming DEI policies as being partially responsible for the horrific air disaster between a commercial jet and a military helicopter. Not that any of this is grotesque behavior is surprising. What is also not surprising, but quite incomprehensible, is that people like Mr. Panton are cheering him on. Egad! And he proclaims this cretinous occupant of the Oval Office as a product of Christian intent.
Pardon me while I take a swig of Mylanta!
Of course, the blame for our current malaise has a lot to do with those 90 million or so people who did not vote at all. Along with a “lesser of two evils” campaign by the Democrat Party.
Thus, we get the government we deserve, and the pathetic adoration of evil from people such as Jonathan.
Joseph Harrington
Oak Park