I found your editorial, “Not a good sign,” published in the Herald Oct. 26, to be extremely offensive, both in content and tone.
To trivialize the importance of the upcoming election by comparing political yard signs to inflatable reindeer is naive, simplistic and irresponsible.
Your tongue-in-cheeck perspective (“planet Partisanship,” “a political yard sign seems like vice-signaling,” “Privacy solves so many things”) shows a total lack of understanding of just what is at stake here.
With a serious leadership vacuum, rampant corruption and unprecedented moral crises at the highest levels of our government, and with a planetary emergency playing out before our eyes, what we are dealing with is nothing less than saving our country, our way of life, our belief in the greater good and the future of our children.
To stand up for what one believes and to publicly express support for candidates willing to work toward that agenda? I don’t call that “vice-signaling.” I call that refusing to be silently complicit with the present state of affairs. I call that participating in democracy.
And I found it ironic that, printed directly above your editorial, is the First Amendment, word for word.
Betsy L. Kimmick
Durango
