Exhaustion he has caused is reason enough

I am in complete agreement with your endorsement of Joe Biden for President. If the myriad reasons why Donald Trump has proved completely unfit for the highest office in the land aren't enough, one reason alone that should stand out for every American is the sheer exhaustion we're all living through.

As if it's not enough to know that life is not normal right now and merely attending a family gathering can mean illness or death - add to it the worries of losing a job, being furloughed or fearing it every day due to the virus - add to it what parents are having to work through with children in school, not in school, in hybrid classrooms and missing their sports - add to it friends and family arguing over something as simple as wearing a mask and civil liberties.

Frankly, it's all exhausting and it could have been avoided. Donald Trump's need for personal ego gratification over, among many other things, the well-being of the American people is appalling. It has cost lives and livelihoods. To urge on violence instead of cooling it, to encourage division instead of trying to find a healing middle ground, to find greater need for a crowd's love than their own safety - how can anyone with a straight face and any amount of honesty or integrity call this a leader?

Please America, vote to bring the temperature down, the blood pressure down and the healing to begin. Our fathers and grandfathers and beyond fought too many battles for this democracy, lets not declare their sacrifices meaningless.

Laurie Turpin-Soderholm

Arlington Heights