To the Editor:

Several years ago, when I was hauling sugar beets for TranSystems, I heard a fellow driver talking to another driver one morning while they were meeting each other on the road or at the pile site as they had begun their day.

I recognized the first speaker’s voice as he started shortly before I began my shift. He told the second driver that whenever he began his shift, the Sirius XM radio was always tuned to some right-wing programming. Ordinarily he’d just change the station to one of his preferred formats. But on this day he’d decided that he’d listen to what exactly the night shift driver was habitually listening. He paused and announced, “After listening to that stuff for about twenty minutes, I felt like killing myself!” That sounds like some really uplifting programming content to me…not!

I occasionally dial up the Fox News entertainment network in search of material with which to condemn the right-wing propaganda machine. On a recent Sunday I had to look away from the Vikings’ game, which they nearly let slip away. I came across NewsNation, which was live at the former president’s rally in Erie, Pennsylvania.

It wasn’t long, certainly not twenty consecutive minutes of watching the former President play his “air concertina,” but I was taken back to that assessment of despair that the TranSystems’ driver had felt after putting himself into a shroud of gloom, conjured by a depressing sampling of right-wing drivel.

In the aftermath, the country has ultimately thrived, survived, and thrived again under alternating leadership. The one glitch, of course, was the bungled presidency of the failed/corrupt businessman with no (zero) experience in governance. Let’s all change the channel to reject the candidate of projection, fear-mongering, revenge, racism, hate, lies, and exclusion.

Vote Blue, or you may never get the chance to vote again. (That’s another of 45’s long-range goals.)

Keith R. Klawitter

Morgan