Vote platform, not personality

"Trump aides say he was joking." (D. Herald, 6/20/20). As rally speakers do, Trump had used irony and sarcasm. Trump said, "Here's the bad part ... when you do testing to that extent, you're going to find more people; you're going to find more cases. So, I said to my people, slow the testing down please." Hear Trump's joking tone yourself; search "Trump Oklahoma speech video." Mathematics concurs, more testing yields more positives.

Trump was extremely funny. Trump spoke about his competent West Point stage exit requiring he descend a 10-yard, non-railed ramp wearing slick-bottomed shoes after speaking, baking in the sun, saluting 600 times, etc. Wisely, he walked gingerly down this ramp. Afterward, certain media falsely reported he had Parkinson's.

Hear Trump's unreported accomplishments. Even if you don't prefer a candidate's personality, vote platform. "Liberal" Democrats defund, defame, destroy; Republicans protect people, structures, and build to make America great. People flock to our USA, so we do much right.

Communists claim they will take us over from the inside, without ever firing a shot. Hong Kong anti-communists risk Beijing's tortuous, organ-selling prisons for their freedoms. Take away our police, rule with control-monitoring liberals, take away our guns, take away our constitutional freedoms, destroy our culture, buy our land, and then, as most of the globe lives, we too will be.

Watch Gov. Noem's fantastic Mount Rushmore July 3 video. Noem states, "Our founders had their flaws, certainly, but to use those flaws to condemn their ideals is unjust and self-defeating. How many of us have lived up to our own ideals?"

MLK, Jr. challenged us to live up to, not destroy, their grand ideal that all men are created equal. As every person, our founders had flaws and virtues.

Diane Stevens

Hoffman Estates