Ballot box is place to make decisions

Never have I felt more compelled to address this forum than after reading Larry Williams' Dec. 7 letter to the editor. Trouble ahead? Really?

Let me remind Mr. Williams that the crisis that ensued in 1861 with the Civil War was an epic test of the fledgling nation against an intolerance toward humankind. Slavery was swiftly cast on the ash heap of history. Rightfully, intolerance toward others has no place in the framework of a civil society forged by the American experiment. Civility, not intolerance, is an absolute need in governance.

Yet your writing demonstrates a total absence of tolerance toward others' viewpoints. You clearly link a failure to think like the "rest of us" as a genesis for a national cataclysm akin to the 1861 Civil War. It's downright chilling. Advocating this type of "resistance" is dangerous to the body politic and must be called out in no uncertain terms.

Let me be unequivocally clear. While you claim that an objective analysis would lead one to mirror your thoughts regarding President Trump, you are sordidly mistaken. For over three years, an incessant drum beat of angst in this Orwellian drama belies an entirely different Democrat agenda set on disenfranchisement. The president is following through on the job we elected him to do. We are not blinded as some are by an unbridled angst gone amok, rather our eyes are wide open to greater possibilities for this nation. We will meet at the ballot box as a civil society should do. And we will prevail. Intolerance of some will join that ash heap of history.

Bill Anderson

Schaumburg