text: I wish this were four years from now, and we were all reading this from the safe perspective of it all being history. Going forward, well, many of us  lived through the Vietnam years, the years where leader after leader of ours was murdered, and not knowing what tomorrow would bring was pretty damn stressful.
  I at least trusted Barack Obama. 
  Thanks, Republicans, you could have found a way to get a decent person through your primary process, but no, you handed us Trump, and fought for him mightily in the Presidential election. Well, you and Putin and Comey fought for him. 
  I wonder what civics classes look like today in High School. If teachers cannot express misgivings or side with one side or another, that must make for some funny assignments..."now, read tomorrow's online NYTimes and pick pick out some of the more intelligent things your government is doing", or, write on the draft and whether you think it is what America needs".
   
  Hugh Massengill, Eugene Oregon