Dear Editor: These are scary times. We no longer seem capable of coming together to fix our problems. The two sides disagree on who runs this country. And, sadly — it is no longer possible to settle the question through elections, because they don’t even agree that elections are how you decide who’s in charge. That’s the basic issue here. Who decides — who runs the country? When parties hate each other and can’t accept the election results, you have what our country is about now! When you stop accepting election results you have a countdown to a civil war.

When I grew up, I was taught to respect the office of President whether I voted for them or not, and all these newspapers and reporters, and TV anchors, social media, etc. who feel they have to continually attack and carry on with blatant lies and say the things they do for a good story are badly hurting our country.

God bless you and God bless America!

Ed Moffitt

Flatlands