Letter: Turn away from destructive behavior

The most important agenda item president-elect Donald Trump best plan on pursuing is the encouragement of we the people to fix our presidential selection system in a manner that avoids the American electorate being caught with a final choice between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.

Aside from that, best he and Congress content themselves with rearranging the deck chairs on a Ship of State that is in danger of becoming another Titanic. If we are to move on and avoid the nation coming apart, people of goodwill and concern for our land and its people are going to need to turn away from vitriolic expressions and the projections of destructive passions onto others. For the next four years we need to attempt to make the best of the fact that we were going to elect one of the two most disliked and distrusted candidates in history. Whichever candidate won was going to be greeted by a vast majority of three-fourths of the public with regret of their being the final selection. This is a product of citizens failing to participate in the nomination and election of our most important national leader.

We need to survive what has happened and join in fixing the system that has led to what is so unacceptable to masses of Americans. There may be vandals who will not heed this need and as best all of the rest of us can they need to be shunned with calm response or silence.

Sam Osborne

West Branch