Divisiveness from the left

In Jamie Stiehm's Nov. 16 column, you allowed her to spew her obvious hate for anyone that does not share her opinions or political affiliation.

She wrote of her "nightmare about evil Elon Musk taking over Twitter." She also voiced her opinion that Musk is a "creature from another planet," as he had the nerve to tell his millions of followers to vote Republican, which she sees as "antidemocratic." These statements are unprofessional and immature.

Many of us Americans are tired of hearing such hateful statements from one party claiming to be inclusive and accepting while blaming the opposite party for being divisive and intolerant.

Elon Musk is obviously a very prominent person in our society. He has not amassed millions of followers for being an evil creature from another planet.

In this country, we still have the right to free speech and for someone to encourage voters to vote a certain way. The fact that Musk is able to do this through one of Stiehm's precious social platforms is apparently hard for her to accept.

In recent years, the mainstream media outlets have turned to the far left and have continued to try to convince the population that there is only one way to think and vote. Unlike Elon Musk, who is transparent about his political preferences, our media sways unsuspecting Americans to vote Democrat but in a deviously cunning manner. That is pure evil.

News outlets are supposed to deliver the news, period. There are still many Americans with conservative values, yet platforms for those voices are few and far between.

Comments such as Ms. Stiehm's are a disgrace and add to the divisiveness in this country. Your publication of this article is a prime example of why America is in a downward spiral.

Tom Sweeney

Mundelein

Picking and choosing

It is always a slippery slope when one uses religious dictates to justify a political position. That is precisely why the Founders made it clear that religious convictions should not be sanctioned by federal law. A recent letter on the Herald's Opinion page is an example of this. In "A risk GOP should consider," the writer opines that the Republican Party needs to be wary of "abandoning" those believers who are anti-choice. As justification for this, he cites the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which affirms the Church's position against abortion. The problem with this is that the revision of that same Catechism of 1992, paragraph 2267 reads, "the death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person." I heard no uproar from Catholics when the GOP overwhelmingly supported capital punishment to the tune of 80% even after the admonition from Rome. If one seeks to rule by religious dictate, one cannot pick and choose which dictates to follow. Jesus knew this and suggested we render to Caesar and God separately.

Robert Lupo

Palatine