An anticipated coronation turned out to be an election. The long-suffering palace princess was not chosen to lead the multitude into the promised land.

A presidential election happens in the USA every four years, a process dreamed about in most other countries.

I recently read an article that quoted the writer Daniel Greenfield: “When you hate each other but accept the election results, you have a country. When you stop accepting election results, you have a countdown to a civil war.” (Think 1861.)

In 2008, I considered Barack Obama a “feel-good” candidate anathema to American values. The light, I hoped at the end of the four-year experiment in “hope and change,” was the 2012 election. This resulted in another four years of hopeless and irrelevant change.

I wrote no letters insulting the duly elected president.

To this forum’s caustic contributors, paraphrasing a candidate: “Come on man” — chill out; there is an election in eight months.

Should the next election not go to the person of your choice, suck it up, take it like a man and wait another four years. Your literary venom reveals more about you than the president you condemn — and even Lincoln was hated.

Assuming there is no 1861, another election will happen in 2024.

David A. Scandrol

Lower Burrell

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