I read with interest the letter titled ‘Unity’ in the Dec. 14 PDN.
It included a number of common Trump Republican characteristics, including lots of complaints about how the Democrats have treated President Trump and launched innumerable investigations onto his activities.
Lest we forget, Donald Trump led the birther movement against President Obama and the Republicans were forever chasing the Benghazi investigation.
And let’s not forget that Mitch McConnell declared that his primary focus was on making President Obama a one-term President.
I could counter each additional point in the letter with offsetting points about the Republicans and President Obama.
But the thing is, what we need as a nation is for the people we have hired and whose salaries we pay to stop acting like children on a playground with grudges and tit-for-tat exchanges and to do the jobs they were hired to do.
And for that, we need unity or at least the willingness to meet somewhere short of their most polarized positions.
We have lots of major needs in this country and the people we send to Washington are the ones we have hired to address those needs.
Name calling and grudge carrying are for the lesser of us. We need our representatives to be the greater of us.
‘Unity Not Ever’ gets us nowhere.
Steve Moore
Port Townsend