I am appalled by the election of Donald Trump. How could the American people choose a depraved womanizer, self-serving tax evader and prejudiced person who entered politics by denying the citizenship of Barak Obama?
Then, in Trump’s campaign for president, he cruelly insulted a woman (“blood coming out of the whatever”), incited hatred toward Mexicans and Muslims, and declared he would jail Hillary Clinton. She is a supremely qualified woman who has devoted her life to effectively implementing measures to improve opportunity for all citizens, especially women and children.
Most incongruous of all is how men the likes of Trump, Giuliani and Gingrich could effectively denigrate a woman who stood by her husband, a great politician with Shakespearean tragic flaws, for “enabling” her husband. Those three cheated on their many wives.
Now, we as a country will be led by those who would not cooperate on any legislation proposed by President Obama to get us out of the deep recession he inherited from the previous Republican administration. The legislative measures include the stimulus, which used government money to improve the failing economy and provide jobs; legislation to save the car industry; and Obamacare and related measures, which provide medical care to 20 million people. Obama’s proposal to improve the country’s disintegrating infrastructure through public/private cooperation was never enacted by the Republican House and Senate.
This proposal could have employed the white men lacking a college education or technical skills who are largely responsible for electing Trump. Worst of all, the environmental measures enacted by Obama will be wiped out by executive order. We face a Supreme Court that may deny a woman’s right to choose, deny voting rights to minorities, and continue to deny curbs on the wealthy to influence elections.
The Republican dominated government will undoubtedly continue to permit unfettered gun rights, even to terrorists, because of lack of legislation to require reasonable background checks. And, the biggest irony of this election is that Hillary Clinton won the popular vote!
Anne W. Silberfarb Norwich
Trump Won; Deal With It
I have written many letters to this paper. This paper refuses to print a good many of them, so when I open the paper two days after our election and see the statement from folks like Dan Weintraub (“Adults Have Failed,” Nov. 10), it makes me smile. It exposes this paper for what it and a good many others are: liberal bastions of ignorance. Period. Weintraub, like a good many others, needs to be re-educated on the great rules of the republic we live in. Liberals are part of the problem; when things do not go their way, they blame the rest of us and go so far as to say we let our children down. What we really need to do is educate them on history, something Weintraub and similar folks in Norwich and other places have a complete misunderstanding of.
Change is inevitable; those who refuse to accept it will be left floating on a sinking ship on a cloud to nowhere. I, and a good many others, have always accepted the results of a free and spirited election. I have never apologized for voting, and my candidates lose often due to the Democratic folks in Norwich voting in my district. I understand this and accept it; they were just educated beyond their intelligence. Thank you all for voting. Grow up and accept the results.
Doug Tuthill West Hartford
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America’s Great Mistake
Who could have anticipated that having a democratic system of government would lead a country into such a perilous place as having a completely unqualified candidate get elected to its highest office?
People are so desperate for change that they would willing elect a glaringly unqualified person to lead the country. And this desperation is a direct result of the Republican Party blocking every move that President Obama tried to make to bring about the change people are looking for.
If the Republican House and Senate had let our president do his job, Donald Trump would never had been nominated, much less elected. Had anyone other than Trump been elected, I would be disappointed, but I am resentful, sad and not a little afraid.
Make America great again? The rest of the world is looking at America with shocked horror, wondering if we have lost our minds. We were great before this election. But now, we have to work toward being credible again.
Mary Jean Mueckenheim Windsor