To the editor: Your article about misery and hatred in Springfield, Ohio, should serve as a warning. If something like this can happen there, it can happen in any other similar community in the United States.
Who has instigated this? The Republican presidential and vice presidential candidates. If they can cause so much disruption and suffering as candidates, what havoc can they cause if elected? They are not concerned with the truth of a situation. They only want to cause controversy and instill fear.
The article claims that when vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance learned of social media reports that Haitian residents were “eating pets,” he asked his staff to contact city officials to verify the report; he was told that police had not received any such reports. He went public with the allegation anyway.
Former President Trump then repeated the allegations in a nationally televised debate.
These two men are not interested in putting out the fire. On the contrary, it is part of their strategy to get elected. And when they are elected, they will use incendiary tactics to keep us frightened, miserable, and obedient so that they can more easily implement their policies, whether popular or not.
Jane McMackin, Temecula
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To the editor: It is outrageous that Trump and Vance can so cynically use an entire community for political purposes.
Vance should resign as Ohio senator. Instead of looking out for his constituents, he has disrupted and endangered the lives of all Springfieldians.
This is just a small preview of what to expect from a second Trump term: sowing hatred, division and fear to stay in power.
Carole Roberts, Lakewood
