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Every American citizen who believes in law and order should support the trial and punishment of all the riotous attackers on the Capitol a year ago who can be proved to have violated the law. Recently, Vice President Kamala Harris declared an equivalency between that attack and the attacks of Dec. 7, 1941 and Sept. 11, 2001. Nothing could be more heinously insulting and hurtful to those who died in those attacks and their families.
Then, President Joe Biden seized hold of what could have been a golden opportunity to be a true leader by bringing healing and reconciliation to a divided nation and instead chose to sow even more division and to engage in vicious ad hominem attacks on his predecessor — an example of ironically drawing defeat from the jaws of victory. I believe both Harris’ and Biden’s words were hyperbolic demonstrations of the complete absence of leadership and of the fomenting of turmoil and unrest.
I recommend people read George Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language.“
Brian Striar
Bangor