Making America great again?

The entire support network for the current administration strikes me as odd. Sex scandals, collusion with a foreign power, nepotism - it feels like a B-grade American movie about politics. Our American leadership is an embarrassment.

Saying America has gotten a raw business deal from the rest of the world is ridiculous. Look at our country - we have superstores and mega-grocery stores around every corner, we have laudable education and transportation systems, we have a reliable energy grid and numerous well-supported national parks.

This country may not be, statistically, the best country on Earth, but it is a better place than most. We need not cry foul about our position in the world and demand that others support our narrow-minded vision of our ourselves and our needs.

The supporters of Donald Trump defy explanation. I wonder how many conservative voters would donate a $400,000 salary AND donate it to the federal government.

I wonder how many conservative voters would tweet to the world at every chance. And I wonder how many conservative voters believe our hopes for the future are defined by so-called past greatness that included violating agreements with Native Americans, the slavery of African Americans, the monopolies and abysmal working conditions of the Industrial Revolution, the losses of American lives in two world wars, the nuclear threat presented by the Cold War, a failed war in Vietnam, the Nixon administration and the conspicuous consumption of the 1980s.

Willis Lambertson

Barrington