Letter to the editor: Demonizing others for different opinions

On Aug. 5, 6, 8 and 11 and Sept. 1 and 2, the Tribune-Review published letters to the editor that said or implied Democrats are all thieves, liars, heathens who want anarchy, hatred, Marxism, socialism and communism and want to destroy America and destroy freedom of speech.

I cannot believe Americans would write such hateful, intolerant, absurd words, would demonize their neighbors for having a different opinion. No American believes such sweeping, outlandish generalizations. No American talks that way.

Is the letters to the editor section an unwitting conduit for Russian trolls? Or is the culprit our 1%, the people who are addicted to money, who do not want to pay their fair share of taxes? Do they want to divide and conquer and distract us, while they have their hands in our pockets?

One of Woody Guthrie’s songs states, “some will rob you with a six-gun, and some with a fountain pen.” And we know how President Trump loves to use his Sharpie.

Joanne Garing

North Huntingdon