To the Editor:

It was very sad to witness all the hateful rhetoric tossed around during elections this year. I don’t think I’ve seen such a display of lies and distortions, and we have sunken to a new depth of slime. The scary part is that we may never dig ourselves out. Will we ever be able to bring honesty and decency back to the political arena? I just don’t know, and based on what I recently observed, we may not. Reason and logic have given way to hatred of any opposing ideas using any means to defeat an opponent. 

People that I look to for leadership joined in and immersed themselves in the slime and were a great disappointment to me as human beings.

Politics should not resort to the fights that fans get into after a football or soccer game and should rise above all the fracas. But, sadly, it doesn’t.  

I understand the liberal ideology where anything goes and spare none to win, but it brings humanity down to a new level. In short, take no prisoners.  

I also understand the liberal view that people are simply cattle and need to be herded around by those who consider themselves superior to them. Were they to have their way, we would be a dictatorship and all opposing parties would be outlawed as they did in Communist Russia, Venezuela, Cuba and other countries where one party rules. Keep the lower classes supplied with food stamps and cell phones to keep them happy while the political elite run amok, getting rich off the backs of others.

The conservatives fell into much of the same trap and failed to make their case, spending their time defending themselves or poking at their opponent.  That left little time for them to explain the real problems the country faces and what they expect to accomplish.

Perhaps the liberals intended to prevent the sane logical and reasoning politicians from getting their point across and it was all part of the plan to keep the opposition preoccupied defending their ideas.

As a member of humanity, I’ve always felt an obligation to help pull my fellow man up to something better, but the liberals just see humans as so many cattle to be led by those so-called intellectuals who would rule them.

Problem is, under their system too many people pay the price. Some 40 million retirees are being wiped out by liberal economic programs we simply can’t afford. Our young grow up looking for some charismatic elite rulers to take care of them rather than bringing innovation and creativity to the nation.  

Can we ever bring sanity and honesty to political campaigns, or must we always resort to lies and distortions? Can opposing parties ever sit down at a table and discuss our real problems in a sane and honorable way? Can we ever solve problems? I just dunno, but perhaps I’m just disappointed in political campaigns that have sunk to new lows.”

Bob Wilson

Franklin