Don’t Unite Unwisely

To the editor:

Fear and loathing driven by deceit missed its target, and those who bear the guilt will do little more than raise their voices against “violent rhetoric” which they themselves perpetrated. And all of that ilk now hope this will shield them from the misfortuned consequences of their own corrupt lust for power. Misfortuned in the very much alive martyr they would have rather mourned with dry tears — and used to suffocate opposition in a coercive call for unity against divisive rhetoric.

This is the second national war against divisiveness. It took only a handful of months for the first to tear down the powerfully uniting influence of 9/11. Lapel pin flags were cast as intolerant acts. And insolence to the national anthem or honorable statuary were said to be acts of patriotic free will.

If these folks ever feared a dead Donald Trump, they were fools of the first order. Urging an equate to Hitler and not condemning those who suggestively raised the idea that it would have been heroic for someone back then to have preemptively killed the German tyrant, was a line of violence to which their silence spoke approval. One of their over eager confederates went so far as to introduce federal legislation to deny secret service protection to any candidate for president who had been convicted of a felony — even as the powerful in their party waged law-fare against Trump. Their rent-amobs chanted “take him out, take him out.”

For a long time their politics of personal destruction have been bull-horning a civically confused electorate into a self destructive political war. A nation so divided, said President Lincoln, can not stand. So as well do we all fall on our swords, when we the people abandon our common sense instincts to filter the sh... from the shinola, and allow our voices to be neutered under the guise of national unity. Uniting the turds with the holy water is not how we come together. We should not abandon decency for an amoral infusion of what’s politic.

Unity, yes. But unity around the principles of honesty, wisdom and unfettered speech. We are free to ignore — as we ourselves divine what’s political Koolade and what’s safe to drink. God Blessed President Trump. Let’s hope He blesses us so that we choose wisely in November.

Don Carpenter Schulenburg