It’s déjà vu all over again

Re America unravels, Letters July 23 In 1968, as young marrieds, my husband and I anticipated voting in our first federal election in our hometown, Chicago. Then, as now, racial tension was high, police brutality was a hot-button issue, and riots and the murders of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy and civil rights activists were fresh.

Add to this the vile, provocative rhetoric of Republican presidential candidate Richard Nixon and the “police riot” at the Democratic National Convention held in Chicago that year.

We decided that if Nixon beat Hubert Humphrey, the Democratic nominee, we’d go to Canada. Nixon won, we came to Canada. Today, it’s déjà vu, 46 years later. We’d do the same thing today, given the current scenario. This stuff is in the DNA of the U.S.A. Jeanie Campbell, Mississauga