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To the editor:
I agree totally with Joseph Cannisi about the bad things the Republicans have done and the good things the Democrats have done (“Careful what you ask for,” The Chief, Dec. 20). However ...
The election was a referendum on the past four years; not the past 90 years. Justified or not Harris was — and is — connected to Biden's dismally low approval ratings.
I find Mr. Cannisi's statement about working people swayed by “social messaging” disturbing and condescending and whatever disagreements we've had on these pages I have not found that to be his modus operandi. I am a working-class person. I base my electoral choices on positions on domestic and foreign policy, gleaned from candidates' websites and fact-based, neutral reporting.
The divisiveness caused by this election is sickening. I may have lost a friendship of 46 years because I said, totally in jest, "make America great again." I could feel the PTSD through the telephone. I have another friend I call "a liberal idiot" and he calls me "a crazy confused convoluted conservative" and our debates sound homicidal yet when we finish debating we still respect each other, we're still friends, and we still do favors for each other.
Why can't people get along according to the latter example? We're all supposed to be united in the pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness. How is that possible when readers of this publication think people who were undecided or didn't vote for their candidate are mentally defective, racist, misogynistic or xenophobic? I disagree with voting for Harris yet I respect the decision of anyone who did (such as my mother). Why can't Harris supporters reciprocate? Why is Trump — whether we're for or against him — dividing us like this and robbing us of our civility?
Nat Weiner
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thePuma
oh come on Nat, you can't be that simply naive
Wednesday, December 25, 2024 Report this
reenjoe
Nat, Biden's approval rating is more a measure of the divide you note in your letter between conservatives and liberals rather than Biden's actual performance. He has an 80+% approval rated among Democrats and single digits among Republicans. That explains an average ~40% approval.
As for the suggestion that working people have been swayed by "social messaging" being disturbing and condescending, what do you call Haitians eating cats and dogs? Boys going to school and coming back girls? Liberals are the enemy within?
Trump is able to divide us because of HIS incivility.
Thursday, December 26, 2024 Report this