Elections serve to preserve a nation

To the editor:

If Iran wanted peace would they need to be checked-up on? Trying to force a peaceful mind-set on another is useless, at least by human power. But some credit is due, Iran is more plain in their speech than our leaders are. Iran dreams and actively seeks destruction.

So, what's the answer? We need to make ourselves and our friends strong militarily and guard against a tyrant's deceit. All the talk in the world will not persuade those indoctrinated into a destructive mind-set from youth even if their cost is self annihilation.

We are trying to deal with people who will look us in the eye, with a stare unsoftened, features unbent, who are as emotionless as bronze statues. In our own self interest, if we want novelties in 2016 let us shop in a novelty shop. Barack Obama, by all results, proved to be a tarnished novelty. Hillary Clinton, if elected, offers another novelty and she is burdened with failures left behind in one office after another. Like a perennial plant once planted which becomes in due time unwanted, but still seeks the sunlight, she's difficult to remove from the stage of history. Does she proclaim a right other Americans are expected to earn and qualify for?

No one has a reserved place 'in line” to lay claim to the U. S. presidency. Elections are not about proving that we are race blind or gender neutral, they are about preserving a nation; a free people's fragile inheritance.

Rosemary Weydert

Winthrop