Editor:
Kamala comes as a lift to voters who can find nothing to respect in Donald Trump. He seems conditioned, like a lab monkey, to require constant praise, approval, and sympathy, and to his idolators belongs this idol. Harris also gives secret solace to those true Republicans and evangelicals who have so long cowered in silence while this graceless viper disfigured their principles and traditions.
Yet we must be mindful that Trump being wrong - and he is wrong at every level of analysis - does not make anyone right. From pain, people will scour the landscape for someone to blame - media does this for profit - and Trump, like Biden, is just another bait to click.
Democracy requires high-mindedness; people of conscience, competence, cheerfulness and compassion, who are educated and who feel secure in their lives and persons. Those who must spend their days in hardship and anxiety, whose education and basic security needs are neglected or attacked, will sooner tolerate slavery than chaos and prefer Auschwitz to Sodom. Their panderers will attempt to invalidate this election, but will lose.
America is more than any political party can embody; we're the team; politics is just the equipment. Each of us does certain things well and other things poorly. When we get together it all evens out. Ultimately, everything is about loving and not-loving. When reasonable people cannot love, it is not because love is unavailable to them.
This night will pass, and then we shall have work to do.
Tony Baker
Saint Simons Island