Sonoma West editorial "love it or leave it" by Publisher Rollie Atkinson

The editorial “Love it or leave it” by Sonoma West Publisher Rollie Atkinson in your July 25 issue is one of the best editorials that I have ever read in my over 70 years. I have also been publishing articles on this matter, but they are not as good as what Rollie writes. It includes a recommendation that people watch the award-winning film “Judgment at Nuremburg,” about Adolf Hitler, whose book Trump has at his bedside.

A reader of my article informs me that there is a TV documentary series titled “The Dark Charisma of Adolph Hitler,” which also received rave reviews, and is available on Netflix. As the famous saying goes, “those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.” Today's weapons are so much more powerful than those of Hitler's time, and more countries have them.

Trump does have a “dark charisma,” which I do not respond well to, but millions of people apparently do. Everything that lives dies, even countries and eventually planets. If our “dark” president, whom some respond to his abusive charisma, presses the nuclear button, it would be all over.

I do not plan to leave my beloved country. However, if I were younger, I would leave, for I expect things to get worse. Rollie quotes from six U.S. presidents, as well as former British Prime Minister Winston Churchhill, Dr. Seuss and a former U.S. Supreme Court justice are important to read.

We now, once again, have concentration camps here in our beloved country, full of thousands of innocent children and families. Their “crime” is often only that they are people of color and some were not born here. “Be ye not like a child, you’ll not get into the kingdom of heaven,” according to the Christian Bible. It’s time to wake up to what is happening here in the United States.

I appreciate the following quotes in the article: “I’m very angry because our country is being run horribly” and “We have a political culture of intimidation. Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power. How many more children and people of color must be jailed, separated from their parents, and abused here in American before we wake up?”
Amen!
Shepherd Bliss,Sebastopol