A lack of integrity

Dear editor:

I won’t bother pointing out or repeating the awful analogy Jack Sternberg used comparing Donald Trump to an excellent doctor with poor bedside manner. Enough people have already done that.

The worst part of Sternberg’s comparison was citing Trump’s integrity. He has none. To say someone is politically incorrect is fine. But blatant and repeated (and well-documented) lying is not political incorrectness. It is simply lying. A man who has serially cheated on his numerous wives and been caught on tape bragging about getting away with touching women’s genitalia is not politically incorrect. He is simply a philanderer and sick human being. A man who repeatedly demeans others, calling them reprehensible names and casting unfounded accusations against them is not politically incorrect. He is simply a narcissistic, pathetic and insecure human being.

Oh, and by the way, Jack, for many, many years I considered myself a Republican, a conservative and voted, not all the time, but primarily, along those lines. This president, and the majority of Republicans in Congress, including Bruce Westerman and Tom Cotton here in Arkansas, do not fit my narrative or what I considered to be a Republican or a conservative.

Donald Trump certainly doesn’t. Giving out corporate welfare in the form of tax cuts for the top 1 percent of individuals and corporations. Running up the federal deficit several trillion dollars by doing so. Fighting endless and needless wars overseas. Destroying our land, water, polluting our environment and endangering species by deregulation that allows these companies to profit to the point of obscenity. I don’t consider any of those things to be conservative or Republican.

And while I don’t much care for the majority of the Democratic views or policies I’m hearing, this fall I’m sure not going to vote for any incumbent Republican. They’ve done enough damage. Time to say Stop.

As to Sternberg, he may have been an excellent doctor (I suspect he may be talking about himself when he says lacking bedside manner), but I feel sorry for someone who goes through life with such a myopic, one-sided, tunnel vision view of things.

Casey Alexander Mount Ida