To The Editor:

“For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.” – Matthew 24:24

After almost four full nights of hate filled fear mongering, complete with calls and chants, reminiscent of a third world banana republic, to extra judicially imprison the opposing party’s candidate, and one delegate even stating a desire to see her executed by firing squad, the man at the convention podium shouts out a litany of evils he alleges are perpetrated against good Americans by various darker skinned others.

Immigrants coming across the border, refugees fleeing war torn countries, and African Americans living in impoverished inner cities are the bad guys, the invading hordes that good Americans need protection from.

He never spells out in any serious policy detail how he will bring back jobs or expel the various boogeymen of his fevered imagination. He repeatedly promises to bring about change through the sheer force of his iron will. “I will give you everything,” the man assures his followers. “I’m the only one.”

Frighteningly, many Americans are buying the fool’s gold this man of inherited wealth is selling. And unlike his political antecedent who rose to power in the Weimar Republic of the 1930s, this man stands to inherit the nuclear codes of the current United States, the most powerful country in the history of the world.

The people are afraid. They listen to him. He finishes his convention speech with this solution to America’s problems: “I am your voice. I alone can fix it.” To this the crowd chants, “Yes you will!” They no longer wish to be governed, they want a king to rule them.

“So Samuel reported all the words of the Lord to the people who were asking for a king. He said, ‘These will be the ways of the king who will reign over you: he will take your sons and appoint them to his chariots and to be his horsemen, and to run before his chariots…He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers. He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive orchards and give them to his courtiers…and you shall be his slaves. And in that day you will cry out because of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves; but the Lord will not answer you in that day.” – 1 Samuel 8:10-18

Sean Pidgeon

Morristown