To the editor:

Donald Trump will win the November election. He’ll win because voters realize Kamala Harris lacks the skill set to be an American president. She’s the most ill-prepared White House aspirant in American history.

But celebrities like Taylor Swift, LeBron James and Whoopi Goldberg believe Kamala’s qualified. As do regional persons like George in Bloomingdale, Martha in Massena, Chuck in Ray Brook and Tyler in Saranac Lake. Their writings convey a haughty disdain for Donald Trump. Should we believe them?

George didn’t know the simple word “decry” despite spending 24 years teaching in a California college. Wow. He’d have known the word had he spent 24 years as a shoeshine boy in the LA airport.

Chuck opined that “alternate facts are lies plain and simple.” He thought “alternate” meant “alternative.” That’s a fact. Plain and simple. Chuck, keep trying. We were in your shoes once … back in the second grade.

Diversity advocate Wayne (formerly of Tupper Lake) exclaimed that the famous Army of the Potomac was a Confederate Army. Huh?

Tyler tried to distill 25 centuries of Mideast history into an accusation that Donald Trump “set the stage” for the conflict there. It’s a facile accusation, like blaming Donald Trump for every disaster suffered over the past four years.

His Mideast analysis didn’t even mention Iran or the Abraham Accords. That’s like analyzing World War II without mentioning Germany or Japan.

So are these persons so smart? They don’t know “decry” and “alternate?” They don’t know which side of the Civil War the famous Army of the Potomac was on? They describe Mideast conflict without even mentioning Iran or the Abraham Accords?

Sorry. They offer no knowledge. They offer something else. Anger. Immaturity. Zealous hate latent under writings temperate and well-adjusted persons would never compose.

Somehow, somewhere, these persons veered off course. A hatred arose and overwhelmed any balance they once might have had. It’s unsettling, because there’s little difference between what they write and what’s found later (in retrospect, after a tragedy) to have been written by persons who proved dangerous.

They think the election’s about whom to invite to dinner. They’re wrong. It’s about who’ll restore peace and prosperity to a turbulent world and a troublous nation.

Kamala gushes about joy, love and unity. But her campaign’s about hate. Her supporters hate Donald Trump. It’s all they have. It’s who they are. And they’ll destroy our country to appease their hate.

They’ll never stop, even after November. Their political hate movement has such momentum.

Public school performance explains this (“What’s wrong with American schools?” by Laura Hollis, ADE Sept. 19, 2024). Hollis says — bluntly — that today’s kids are stupid. Which means today’s parents are stupid. And they’re now joining, enlarging and strengthening the political hate movement.

To me (and God I hope I’m wrong), that hate movement puts us onto a slow sickening slide into Socialism. It won’t divert, because its concern is hatred, not national destiny.

So the haters advance, like an all-conquering legion. A Legion of the Invincibly Stupid.

John Edelberg

Saranac Lake