The shining city on the hill?

I think every one can agree that the United States is no longer President Reagan’s “shining city on the hill.” In the last four years we discourage immigration and refuse to take in refugees. We separate children from their parents. We abandon our treaties - everything from nuclear proliferation agreements to climate control measures. We snub our allies and praise our enemies. We remove ourselves from the World Health Organization.

Obviously our core values have been abandoned in the last four years and the world and we are suffering for it. We give enormous tax breaks to those who do not need them so that Wall Street sails along while too many poor people have to line up to get food. We use our Justice Department to attack the president’s foes and reward his supporters.

I will be voting for the future of the country I served in Vietnam to protect and defend. I am appalled by the behavior of a president who continues to show disrespect for those “losers” and “suckers” who gave the last full measure of devotion for the country they love. War heroes like Senator McCain were never mocked and disrespected until the last four years. Gold Star families were always honored until the last four years. Never before has a sitting president said that he will not accept the results of a presidential election.

This would not be possible without the support of our representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers. I will vote accordingly.

Bob Johnston

Spokane