As loath as I am to start a letter duel in the Cape Gazette, I find the implication at the end of Tom Hess’s letter Nov. 13 to be more than a bit troublesome. Mr. Hess says that the “leftist Democrat party should not push us too far because we might push back.”
Martin Luther King Jr. once stated that violence only provokes more violence and therefore doesn’t really bring solutions to our problems. It’s still staggering to me that Republicans are almost pathologically obsessed with “owning the libs” and somehow “winning” against other Americans who may disagree with them. If only they directed this attitude to the actual enemies of America, but I digress.
If the supporters of Trump are really so easily offended and triggered by being called racist and so forth then the solution is really quite simple: stop accepting admitted racists and white nationalists into your party. And don’t be so keen for an opportunity to “push back.”
All that leads to is more trouble and more pain, regardless of party affiliation. Let’s try to communicate and work together going forward. That’s what America still can be.
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