Avoid hatred

Editor, Gettysburg Times,

As the chair of Gettysburg DFA, I was very proud of the column written by our Healthcare Task Force chair, Jeanne Duffy (“Pennie and ARPA: What they mean for Pennsylvanians”). She presented a thoughtful and factual description of several Pennsylvania healthcare programs that are benefiting thousands of people.

On the same page, Bud Nason lectured that, “The president has eliminated the Hyde amendment protections from his new … budget. One small problem: He can’t.” He follows with a lecture about Congress’s authority to make laws, how Biden is ignoring his oath of office, and equally outraged stuff. I hate to break in when he’s on such a roll, but, uh, Bud, Joe Biden, and almost everyone else except, I guess, you, knows that the president’s budget is, er, a “legislative proposal.” He’s asking Congress to pass a law.

Then there’s Bruce Bennett. In (“Facing Evil”), this is a small sample: “frightened liberal idiots …. evil Dr. Fauci has been exposed as a liar, political hack … next will be martial law … the Communist party of America (aka the Democrats) … the evil witch Pelosi … 25 million illegal aliens sucking from our government. … pathological liar Adam Schiff … The morally bankrupt Democratic party and their Godless Chinese puppet masters … The evil Communist loving Democrats are everywhere now. The transgender child you protect. BLM. Antifa. All part of the evil plan to destroy our magnificent country. … Drs. Moreau and Frankenstein couldn’t hold a candle to this fraudulent lying bureaucrat. He can only be compared to Josef Mengele and Sigmund Rascher, the two most infamous Nazi doctors.”

In the midst of this hatred, he said two completely disgraceful things. First, “If a guy pretends to be a girl, we must pretend with him. LGBTQ is evil disguised as love. …”

But he hit rock bottom when he called for assassination of Democrats. “Thank God and the Founding Fathers for the Second Amendment, it may be our only way out of this evil stew created by America hating Democrats. …”

This country is coming apart. It doesn’t help that some of the most stupid and gullible people in the country have been fed a steady diet of lies and nonsense by one of our political parties and its white supremacist and Q-anon camp followers. Incendiaries like Bruce Bennett are fostering hatred and insurrection.

Leon Reed,

Gettysburg