Carter, Trump direct opposite

As we recently sat at home waiting out the snow, we watched a movie about our late President Jimmy Carter. This film not only talked about his relationship with rock and country musicians, but highlighted his faith, his decency, his compassion and his humanity. These qualities could also describe outgoing president Joe Biden, whose long tenure in politics has been driven by his desire to help average, middle-class Americans. Any parent could be proud to have their children turn out like either of these two men.

So it makes us even more infuriated that we are about to inaugurate a convicted, soon to be sentenced felon with a heart of granite to the American presidency. This lying con-man has never done anything for anyone without a guarantee that he would benefit somehow, a concept so diametrically opposed to everything that America stands for. He tells us that the 520,000 Americans who have died in our wars since 1776 are “losers and suckers,” and we elect him to office? He is probably lucky that Democrats inexplicably chose not to delve more deeply into the legitimacy of this election.

The next four years will be dark and difficult for Americans with hearts and souls. Yet we will be gratified to think back on good, decent men like Jimmy Carter and Joe Biden as exemplars of our true American values.