We’ve lost ability to reason in our debates

A Sue Steigleder wrote to complain about a cartoon in the Daily Herald that mocked Donald Trump as being a pawn for Vladimir Putin. She says that he’s the only one that can barter peace between Russia and the Ukraine. She also says that the Daily Herald owes an apology for this cartoon.

First of all, we have freedom of speech in this country. She may not like the cartoon, but she is not owed an apology.

As for Donald Trump brokering peace, I do believe he said when he was campaigning that he would end this war Day One. Obviously, that hasn’t happened.

It’s astounding to say that the office of the presidency has been disgraced while a man like Donald Trump is in office. The list could go on and on about all the things he’s done to disgrace himself and the office.

However, the bigger problem is the huge chasm that Trump and his acts and rhetoric have engendered in this country. We have become a country where you can’t talk to each other if you have different opinions about politics. We’re supposed to be able to do this, but he has taken all reasoning out of the equation. If you’re not with him, then you’re against him.

Yet his followers fail to see this, and they worship him with blind devotion. This has become like a cult phenomenon. To say the Daily Herald owes an apology to him for disgracing the office with this cartoon is so out of the bounds of reason, I can’t even imagine it.

And that’s the problem. We do not have reason in this equation anymore. Until we do this silly bickering will never end.

Lawrence Kopp

Schaumburg