LETTER: We should use a variety of sources to distill the truth

Dec 28, 2020
Dec 28, 2020 Updated Jan 12, 2021
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To the Editor:

It was sad to read David Foster-Bolton’s diatribe against his Trump-supporting neighbors and his angst over being asked to get along with them. What do you suppose his alternative is? His objective, science-based opinion included the unscientific, subjective terms: selfish, cowards, vindictive, crazy, failed, paranoid, abandoned, delusions, doesn’t care, lies (x4), shamed, divided, etc.

When anyone tries to paint a human being as either pure good or pure evil – they are likely wrong and their zealotry is the problem. Foster-Bolton, your candidate won. Why are you still so angry, insulting and hateful, instead of happy and content?

We should all have a variety of sources of information to help us distill the truth and understand the thinking of each side. After publicly insulting half of his neighbors, Foster-Bolton should ponder why and how they tolerate him.

Martin R. Wellens

Shorewood

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kelly@guncheonfinancial.com Jan 1, 2021 7:45am

“[Y]our candidate won. Why are you still so angry...?” Seriously? When the loser and his supporters continue to levy charges of fraud and corruption with no evidence despite numerous court challenges, when the loser encourages protesters to “stir up things in Washington on the day Congress is set to validate the Electoral College’s votes, when the administration and its political appointees refuse to acknowledge the winner as President-Elect and drag their feet with the transition, when the gist of the campaign waged by the loser, his cronies, and his supporters is to undermine the Constitution and negate the will of the voters... you think there is nothing to be by angry about?

Supporting Trump is more than a political choice; it’s a moral choice. It’s supporting an amoral President and administration that encourages hate, racism, and greed while dismissing the value of truth, compassion, collaboration, and governance.

If you think the writer has no reason to be angry, then your sources of information might be many, but they are leaving you I’ll-informed. After all, it’s not the quantity of sources that matters, it’s their reliance on facts and their relationship with the truth.