To the Editor:
I do not live in a garbage can!
Yesterday, I almost reconsidered when my second Harris/Walz sign was stolen.
But where I live bears no resemblance to a “garbage can.” In my lifetime, I have driven cross-country at least a dozen times. Our country is not a garbage can. Yes, there are some terrible neighborhoods. In my experience, many of the ugly spots are owned by very rich people who live in the safety of the suburbs. They rent to very poor people at inflated prices. The owners seldom maintain their rental properties, angering neighbors and festering the idea that their renters (aka poor people) are lazy, menacing slobs. Rat-infested streets breed depression and violence and they may be the “garbage cans” Mr. Trump speaks of. He seems to want to scare people into thinking we have—what he termed, as President—a “s***hole country.”
I am sorry. Our country is beautiful. It is upsetting that a person who wants to lead us thinks that our country is a garbage can. He believes immigrants are ruining it. (My immigrants arrived in 1630). Yesterday, I learned that his pal, Elon Musk, was an illegal immigrant when he came here, and he worked illegally taking away jobs from Americans. I also learned that Mr. Musk lied to obtain citizenship. Mr. Trump hasn’t said a word about this, nor has he indicated Mr. Musk will be deported like all the other migrants he calls “animals.”
No local members of his party ever speak up. They didn’t after the insurrection. They never seem to separate themselves from his lies or false claims so I guess they agree with him. In my opinion, we never would have become a country, nor could we survive today without immigrants. And we will never be a garbage can.
Sincerely,
Charlotte Scot,
Old Lyme.