Letter: Time to speak up against Trump
In this undated photo, Ammon Bundy receives a call from a former fellow inmate while picking Gypsy Lust apples in his orchard in Emmett, Idaho. Bundy calls himself a "sunlight kind of guy." Before his family's infamous standoffs near Bunkerville, Nevada, and Burns, Oregon, he was living in the dark, he told the Idaho Statesman. Now he's got a new view on life that he's eager to share, he said, and some Idahoans are eager to listen. (Kelsey Grey/Idaho Statesman via AP)
A very interesting quote by Ammon Bundy, who has led standoffs against the United States government, speaking about Trump supporters: "It's like being in a room full of people in here, trying to teach, and no one is listening," Bundy told BuzzFeed News. "The vast majority seemed to hang on to what seemed like hate, and fear, and almost warmongering, and I don't want to associate myself with warmongers."
I believe the majority of Trump supporters are not as he described, but the very vocal few who turned out to be the vast majority of his supports are the voices that we tend to hear.
My Christmas wish is that the people who support Trump's policy but are displeased with Trump's actions would start to speak out against all of the rhetoric spewing from our president's mouth and his untethered actions. Maybe, just maybe, it could bring some unity within the confines of our countries borders and beyond.
Kim Wilson, Murray
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