Voters should make statement against Trump’s prejudice toward immigrants

Editor:

Being somewhat of a baseball purist, I was dismayed with the New York Yankees on Wednesday evening as their inability to perform defensively at a Major League level gifted the World Series to the Los Angeles Dodgers.

But far more alarming was former President Donald Trump’s disgusting “promotional piece” which was based upon his conjured “truths,” his outright prejudice, and was a perfect portrayal as to why he is absolutely the least capable presidential candidate in American History.

The portion of it which showed Vice President Harris was so poorly produced that it appeared to have been edited by a 3rd grader. And to think, we were supposed to be impacted by this conglomeration of her computer altered words, that were obviously not contiguous, and actually made no sense in the first place. That was certainly not a true representation of her, but more so likely his vision of what he believes of her, and he wants you to think the same!

Worse yet is his continuous premeditated ignorance regarding migrants and/or immigrants, as he uses these words interchangeably and really has no idea that they are not the same. He insults their culture, race and ethnicity with absolutely vile characterizations that does nothing more than promote his evil and unfounded stereotypes and prejudice. Why, because unfortunately some see that as a strength he possesses, as opposed to further proof of his ignorance. And with that realization alone – he believes that you will vote for him!

In this case my primary concern is for the younger and possibly newer voters, and how they may be processing this newly generated mess of an electoral process. Some of you may know that I am a retired teacher who taught in your community for 15 years and during some election seasons I conducted a very unscientific study that was intended to prove or disprove that most younger voters are more effected by the political position and priorities of their parents than not.

Now, as I said it was a perfectly unscientific study and it was many years ago. But in almost all cases most student’s political views were fairly well matched to their parents or the primary caregivers of their household. Of course there were always students who were perfectly opposite of their parents (like I was in my youth), but for the most part my premise was found to be the case; most of the young people that I was teaching held political beliefs that mirrored the adults at home.

And thus I believe the challenge specific to our community today is for everyone, especially the newest voters, to be strong enough to deny his prejudice, which is presumed, unfounded, and strategic. Look at him and the way that he conducts himself; he’s constantly bombastic for no reason other than to encroach upon your conscience and good will in an effort to make you believe his lies. For he knows that if he lies often enough, and loud enough, you may believe that he must be right.

No, it actually means he is loud simply because he is disguising his own inadequacies, and at the same time promoting his belief that he has some sort of near divine authority. It has absolutely nothing to do with his capabilities to be the leader of the most powerful and influential nation in the world. But for him, and unfortunately for the sake of our community and our nation on the whole, his approach and political strategy to date has been to a degree successful. If you may be a student of history, you might recall how this had worked previously; then known as Hitler’s Generalplan Ost. Lie and divide, lie and divide, lie and divide until your followers are unquestionably in lockstep.

And so I write this with the sincere hope that our newest electorate will vote based upon their emerging intellect, and their personal growth and maturity as the newest and proudest cornerstone of our great democracy.  By your vote please tell our community, our nation and the entire world that former President Trump does not speak for me, or my hopes and dreams for this great nation; for he is not who I am, and he is certainly not who we are.

Doug Miller

Albion