Nation may face consequences from election

Dear editor –

About one hundred years ago, a politician tapped into the minds of his constituents by connecting to the frustration of those suffering from a struggling economy by promising to make them safer and better off and to provide a “final solution” to the ethnic group he blamed for the challenges they were experiencing. The willingness of the population to believe him led to his rise to power and the transformation of frustration to hatred that resulted in a purging of the “enemies within”.

Soon after, this group of power/hatred driven zealots believed the rest of the world inferior to them; fit only to be ruled… or destroyed. World War II ensued.

The similarities from then to now are uncanny. George Santayana said, “Those who ignore the lesson of the past, will be doomed to repeat it.”

– Decker L. Sanders, Mountain Home