To the editor: Rising up I used to be taught and inculcated with sure values.
Deal with everybody with respect. Be tolerant of and be taught from a various inhabitants. Deal with those that need assistance. Don’t bear false witness. Don’t steal. Assume critically in evaluating somebody’s motives. Make your life what you need your eternity to be.
My definition of democracy turned the metaphor of a dinner desk with room for everybody. With this election, America has chosen to grow to be egocentric and unique. President-elect Trump has not one of the values I used to be taught, and apparently that’s nice with a majority of People.
After World Struggle II, I recall we had been all towards fascism; now it’s changing into a desire. Are we critically pondering of “realigning”? People and their rights don’t do effectively beneath authoritarians.
James Severtson, Reseda
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To the editor: Regardless of a whole bunch of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} (if not billions) squandered, hyperbolic rhetoric invoking Adolf Hitler, relentless politically motivated lawfare that has undermined the religion of our justice system, assassination makes an attempt and the insulting of greater than half of People who supported him, Trump has prevailed.
As an alternative of attempting to finish warmongering, undertake sound fiscal insurance policies and tackle the myriad home issues going through our struggling nation, the Democrats selected to deal with “getting” Trump. This solely elevated his standing to that of a martyr, and now the American folks have reacted accordingly.
I pray that Democrats will do some soul looking within the subsequent 4 years to understand that People need their elected officers to deal with them and never private vendettas.
Michael Pravica, Henderson, Nev.
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To the editor: “My final grocery invoice was $500 for 5 days’ value of groceries,” my cousin in Texas wrote on Fb, simply two days earlier than the election.
As I learn the exit polls from Wisconsin, I’m struck by the ache, nervousness and worry that drove common voters this election. The America that Trump’s voters see is vastly completely different from what Vice President Kamala Harris’ voters see in these polls: Most understand the nation’s financial system as poor, really feel worse off than 4 years in the past and are indignant in regards to the course by which the nation is headed.
Democrats failed to obviously talk how they’d tackle these issues for the typical American. For many people, considerations about dropping rights grow to be secondary once we are struggling to place meals on the desk.
The polls painted this reality in splashes of purple throughout the center of America.
Christina Reducing, Van Nuys
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To the editor: Not solely did Trump accumulate sufficient electoral votes wanted to win the presidency, he appears to have gotten the favored vote as effectively — fairly an eye-opener. What that tells me is that America has spoken. However who and what’s America (and are Democrats listening)?
America is definitely not a gaggle of A-list celebrities within the leisure trade, and I’ll throw many of the mainstream “information” media into that barrel — not all of them, however most of them. “Actual” journalists weren’t backing Harris or Trump; they had been too busy doing their jobs, masking the chaos as objectively as they might.
Lastly, America is just not mega-donors (of which there aren’t actually that many in comparison with the complete inhabitants).
America, to me, is the typical individual on the road, with a mean job, and a mean household. They’re not wealthy or well-known or highly effective. They’re simply folks, and on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, these folks spoke. They usually mentioned that they like what Trump represents over what Harris represents.
Easy sufficient?
Arthur Saginian, Santa Clarita
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To the editor: It was so arduous to stand up Wednesday morning (after not sleeping), take a look at my two ladies and consider the America I introduced them into.
Then one smiled at me, blissfully unaware and the opposite fortunately mentioned, “Good morning Dad.”
The subsequent 4 years will likely be arduous, the injury will final even longer, however they’ve 4 presidential cycles to develop up in, after which vote and push this nation ahead into the America it ought to be.
That provides me hope.
Michael Smallberg, Menlo Park, Calif.
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To the editor: I believed I had seen nearly every little thing in my 93 years. I feel I’ve now {that a} mendacity, dishonest, morally bankrupt snake oil salesman has been elected to the best place on this land.
Our Supreme Court docket is a sham, and Republicans place celebration above nation, I’ve misplaced all respect for nearly every little thing on this nation.
The one smarts Trump has is find out how to manipulate, connive and lie. He is excellent at that.
God bless our nation; we’re actually going to want it.
Ardyce Martin, Banning
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To the editor: Keep in mind lower than 40 years in the past when a photograph of a person with a lady who was not his spouse sitting on his lap was sufficient to disqualify him for the presidency within the court docket of public opinion?
Gary Hart was clearly a person forward of his time.
Ronald O. Richards, Los Angeles
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To the editor: To all those that voted for Trump, I welcome you to the true world. The Nice Delusion will quickly be unveiled and unmasked.
Decrease costs on shopper items similar to groceries — not going to occur. Deportation of hundreds of thousands of immigrants — by no means going to happen. You received’t discover the “vermin,” as a result of they by no means existed.
Tariffs that may enhance the financial system — no approach. Making America a greater place for all, together with equal justice beneath the regulation — overlook that.
These beneath the Nice Delusion will quickly “reap the whirlwind” of actuality, however all of us higher buckle up, as it will be a bumpy trip the following 4 years.
Rex Altman, Los Angeles
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To the editor: I … can’t … breathe.
Judith Braun, Woodland Hills
