LETTER: Hate was voted out

This is a letter to the editor to a person by the name of Russ who writes a monthly message. We still have a free press in this country and some newspapers still come out in print. The Herald Journal policy for letters to the editor is to ”keep it clean, don’t threaten, be truthful, be proactive and be nice.” Your letters come painfully close to the line of every one of those expectations.

My message to Russ is this. Hate lost this election. Hate was voted out. Not with lies and meanness, but with truth and promise which I find both rewarding and hopeful. No party has God on their side.

Across the whole country the message was made very loud and clear. WE VOTED HATE OUT! We voted for truth and honesty, fairness and equality, justice and evenhandedness and love instead of hate. We voted to pull people up instead of cutting them down. We voted to bring back truth and to hold dishonesty accountable. We voted that we value all people: white, brown, black, Christians, Muslims, Jews or agnostic.

The message was inclusivity. That might be a new word for you. It means the practice of treating all people fairly, equally and with respect. It means we don’t have to agree, but we also don’t have to shout our disagreement.

Our current president has the world record for telling the most lies of anyone on the planet. Lies. The world has watched him try to destroy our democracy each day of his presidency with his cadre of helpers. It has done nothing for the average person and has made the super-rich wealthier. We have watched him take away rights and change the rules. His decisions have put more Americans into poverty and loss of healthcare. We have watched him denigrate whole swaths of people and make himself and his family wealthier at the expense of all of us. We have watched him destroy our relations with our trusted neighboring countries for no imaginable good.

The whole world got a message on Wednesday morning of last week. America voiced how much we care about the values our country was founded on. Rather than uplift the rich, support the vile, demonize “other” and suppress women’s rights and hate anyone who disagrees, they voted for truth, fairness and honesty. And you can still have your negative opinion, but many of us are happy that love, truth, honesty and empathy won this election.

I invite you, Russ, to lay down your hateful pen and join our joyous crowd to make our world a better place and restore our former standing on the world stage.

Patricia Sadoski

Logan

LETTER: Hate was voted out

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