Like most, I’m thankful that we’re on the downhill side of this election season. The divisiveness and anger that is ever present is so disturbing and is a guarantee of more of the same.
I know it’s important to highlight the differences between you and your opponent, but a continuation of the current hyperbole isn’t the answer. A winning election that makes losers out of half the American people is no victory; it is a road to the demolition of our republic.
I have always considered myself a Christian conservative. For most of my adult life, this meant I leaned Republican … until 2016. I just didn’t see, in Donald Trump, the skills I considered essential to the presidency. So I wrote in a name.
In 2020, I knew that those skills were absent, so for the first time since 1960 (when, as a recent college graduate, I voted for John Kennedy), I voted for Joe Biden.
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I will likely vote for my third Democrat this November, and I will look closely at those state office seekers who appear to be more loyal to a candidate whose beliefs do not align with mine than to the conservative positions that are central to my sense of right and wrong.
Deane Looney
St Louis