It was moving to read of the editorial board invoking President Franklin Roosevelt's encouragement for Depression-ravaged Americans to look to faith for the country's salvation in those difficult and hopeless times ("Dismissing Latter-day Saint, religious voices is perilous 'opiate' to the masses," Oct. 23).
How befitting to this divinely imperfect but beautiful American experiment in self-government would it be if the Republican nominee attempted to lead by virtue and hope, by echoing President Roosevelt's exhortation to a staggering country: "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
Instead he preys on our fears and darker predilections. For this reason I feel righteous indignation towards him and those who endorses someone whom they absolutely know to be vile, arrogant, profane and a demagogue, and demand that his opponent must be the same.
The better angels of our nature wish to be with us once again.
Chris Stevenson
Purcellville, Virginia