Election of Trump has lasting moral effects

Since President Donald Trump joined the many GOP presidential candidates, America has for some reason allowed infantile behavior and turned our admiration away from good business practices and somehow decided that this one person is fit to be president, sans any real experience for which he should be admired.

Most people don’t walk away from debt without lasting consequences, keenly aware of the hardship their nonpayment has on workers, but Trump’s repeated filings of bankruptcy did not keep people from supporting him with their vote.

Rallies with him and Gen. Flynn leading the “Lock her up” chant became normalized when it continued ad nauseam, appealing to the rude, crude and unattractive.

For more than a year the White House has operated without compliance to standard, time-honored rules, specifically existing to preserve our nation’s security, but with many not fit to receive clearances, shouldn’t something be done? Why are these people still working there? With such raw disrespect for these safeguards, is it any wonder that people with already erratic behavior, suffering from lack of sane mental health, fall through the cracks.

The Parkland shooter should have, would have, could have been examined by authorities. And, at the very least, his inability to buy an assault weapon might have changed his plans to kill 17 and wound so many others, not only physically, but mentally. The surviving students will be marked by this for a very long time.

So, electing a so-called business tycoon, with four bankruptcies, which screams anything but success, and supporting a rude, crude, adulterer has turned into a bloodbath. Isn’t it time to start respecting our governmental agencies, such as the FBI, CIA and others trying to practice standard operating procedures, tried and true, so the Soviets aren’t having the time of their lives, at the expense of our safety.

CAROLE HARTER Fayetteville