Lessons in hatred

Dear Editor,

Candidates Donald J. Trump and J.D. Vance see their path to election as persuading us that we must fear and hate a long list of people: those who are not White; with different religious beliefs; government officials, including governors, secretaries of state, election administrators, judges, members of the FBI; asylum seekers; the “elite”( with college degrees);  those who served in his administration and state that he is unfit to be president;  Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio; cat ladies; women who do not have children; school teachers; the tiny group of transgender people;  members of the LGBTQ community, voters in large cities (who vote for Democrats) and many more.

According to Donald Trump, these people are ruining our lives and we must give him absolute power to attack them, put them in jail, use the military against them and to get revenge for the awful things they are doing to us.

Donald Trump and J.D. Vance tell us that Haitian immigrants, in the country legally, are eating our household pets and that our children, sent to school, are, unbeknownst to us, being given sex change surgery.

Are these people making our lives a living hell and destroying our country? Really?

Will we give Donald Trump the power he seeks to destroy our democracy in the name of defending it?

Our votes will determine whether we continue to have a democracy or if Donald Trump succeeds in obtaining the power he seeks to destroy it.

It is up to us to make sure that Donald Trump does not get his wish.

Bruce Menke

Athens