Some renewal required

Most letters to the editor these days are replete with attacks on Trump’s many despicable deficiencies. They are all missing the mark.

Trump is a symptom of a sickness that has overtaken our national soul.

That sickness values only externals like fame, fortune, and success rather than what all religions and philosophies emphasize: loving all our fellow humans; supporting the weak; seeking justice for all and preserving the wondrous planet we are blessed to live on.

Until we find our way to such a spiritual renewal, one that values the means by which we live our politics rather than simply the attaining of ends at any moral cost, we will continue to spiral downward to a cruel Hell, rather than growing up to become a kind civilized nation widely valued as a great asset to the future of the world.