People can grow stronger
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Editor,
From a most interesting psychological point of view, Donald Trump has attracted many followers by constantly preaching and teaching the worst of human traits. Four of these traits are anger, fear, attack and blaming others.
We see in the first trait, anger, a feeling we all experience at times. The second trait, fear, we see now, especially in many of our legislative personnel in government. Number three, attack, is often a behavioral tendency. Number four, blaming others, is what especially attracts so many people to the Trump base.
We all have parts of our selves we don’t really like, and blaming others for these things takes us off the hook and frees us from guilt. The problem is out there, not in ourselves.
As a nation, we can see how this sort of constant preaching and teaching by a president can rip at the very fabric of our democratic union and “government of the people, by the people, and for the people.”
The way I personally think and feel about all this is that we will, over time, heal as a nation. We have a great ability to not only heal the hurt but grow even stronger. I believe that every experience in life offers lessons for learning better ways to meet our challenges.
Bob McClellan
Missoula
