From Kay Ziegahn

Richland Center

To the Editor: 

In denigrating others just to get a laugh, Trump imagines he is superior to all who disagree with him. Therefore, he blithely continues mudslinging anyone he considers a rival. Who but a fool would say, much less believe, that Kamala Harris is stupid? Her achievements far outweigh his. Most of what Trump has is due to wealth he inherited, much of which, in contrast to his assertions, he has frittered away, reducing what he started out with. Trump continues to criticize the economy under democratic rule, but with his ignoring warnings about Covid, he brought our economy to a standstill.

He assumes those with less wealth are stupid, but wealth isn’t everything. Moral strength is much more valuable. Consider what the Haitians that he and Vance so cruelly and falsely accused in Ohio have gone through in their lives to get where they are. Imagine if your forebears had been enslaved like those of most black people now living in the Western Hemisphere. What kind of a start in life have their families had? To have survived, these people must have come from much superior stock than what rich, former slave-owning families are descended from. We should give the poor every advantage possible to allow them the education to develop skills that will benefit mankind in the future, instead of cutting off their options for self-improvement.

However, Trump and his Republican cronies have systematically chipped away at Public Education, and used public money for private institutions, so that average citizens have even fewer options for education. Instead, this indicted and convicted phony wants to deliver us all into servitude under Putin, who without a doubt, is pulling the strings of what will become our permanent puppet regime under him, if we elect Trump on November 5th.