Teach by bad example?

Let us hope that our responsible community newspaper is kindly attempting to instruct us by example in how not to think by printing the column by Rick Scott (“Left’s behavior blocking compromise,” Feb. 6, 2019), who confesses in his first sentence that “I’ve been a U.S. senator for three weeks now, and I can tell you reports of hate and incompetence in Washington are severely understated.”

Only three weeks and yet he knows it all! Is he a savant, a fool or another huckster? Well, he insists that he knows “the wishes of the American people,” the best way to secure our border,” what “the vast majority of Republicans” are ready to agree to, and that the only reason Democrats won’t go along with what he knows best is because of spite, “… because of their hatred of the president.”

And the way he know what is best is based simply on “logic” and “common sense” - his logic and his common sense, which he references at least five times. Disagreements he has are just a matter of having “different views,” while those who disagree with him are solely motivated by “hate.”

He is right about one thing, however: “Things are actually much worse than they appear,” and he has appeared to prove it.

Peter Grossman

Spokane