From the Mailbox




In my email inbox this morning I found this email.

Hi, Mark

How is it possible to have so much hate against one person who show how it works much better, than all Biden Harris bullshit ever can do? You are exact this what you are describe over and over on your website… you can see that in your friendship description very well.., Trump will fight for you too. to make your current shit hole country great again or you and we will end in a dystopi made by peoples like you and your most corrupt and cheating democrats…

hope as we in Germany say " Es möge dir ein Licht aufgehen" Mark

may be you leave the states too. like all the stupid democrats promised 2016, but never done

here another German saying for you

" Schuster bleib bei deinen Leisten "

as nerd and It enthusiast you are welcome

m. bortolon

Here is my public response.

Herr Bortolon,

I don’t hate the current President-Elect, he’s not worth that much emotional investment on my part. I do find him odious, and I am staggered by the seemingly limitless bounds to his stupidity.

The America you call a “current shit hole” only exists in the President-Elect’s mind. Wages are up, inflation is down (and without creating a recession), crime is way down, investment in American industries and American jobs is up, unemployment is way down. By any factual statistical measure, America is demonstrably better off today than it was 4 years ago.

The “distopi” you speak of may very well come in the chaos that will result from the President-Elect’s intended actions. Europe already has the largest land war since World War II on-going in Ukraine. Do you honestly think that the Russian dictator will stop there? A weakened or broken NATO could well have grave consequences for Western Europe.

I don’t expect any of what I’ve said to sway your opinion, based on comments like “Biden Harris bullshit”, “current shit hole country”, “most corrupt and cheating democrats”, and “stupid democrats”, it appears to me that your information source(s) are clouded by extreme right-wing rhetoric.

As Maya Angelou said, “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” We’ve seen who the President-Elect is, and a legitimate majority of the voters want that again. If I hate anything about this, it is that so many people will be harmed as a result of one man’s ego and vanity. And not only the people who didn’t vote for him, but the people who did vote for him.