Letter: Returning to the good old days

An electoral majority of Americans who exercised their right to vote on Nov. 8 nationally and in the state of Iowa supported a return to the good old days that president-elect Donald Trump has yearned for.

The days when woman were sex objects to be seen and not heard, the days when those who exercised the legal right to protest injustices by the government could be carried off on a stretcher, the days when the nuclear arms buildup was a mad race toward world destruction.

Reports nationally and locally reflect a disturbing trend in increased bullying, insensitivity, hatred, and efforts to control and silence the voice of the middle and working class. Iowans and all Americans rather than allowing ourselves to plunge into the abyss of decisions dictated by reckless intimidation tactics, divisiveness, ignorance and violent rhetoric, must push back with all of the legal and political means at our disposal.

The reason this administration has the support of the KKK is because it subscribes to the hatred and brutality that is the history of that organization and others like it. We must vote in the midterm elections and bring the House and Senate back to sanity by supporting Democratic candidates. America is better than this. The people of this great nation need to take this nation back.

Robert Henderson

Waterloo