Dear Editor,
I am the parent of six and with 12 grandkids. I will be the first to say it matters neither way if someone has children or not. It’s just not a kitchen table topic for more Americans.
But it is for J.D. Vance. He obsesses about procreating like a mother-in-law craving a grandbaby. It’s just weird. He’s been name-calling women like a bully on a playground. “Childless cat ladies,” and accusing those without children to be less capable in leadership positions.
I’ve known smart people with kids and the dumbest with kids, and it’s just dumb and small-minded to think the way J.D. does. And, as well, rude and unkind and just simply without facts. The father of our own country, George Washington, didn’t have children of his own. And Moses who lead his people out of Egypt gave up his wife and children to do God’s work.
Priests and nuns over the centuries have touched lives in amazing ways. Just as teachers, many too childless, have taught generations of children that otherwise would not have learned and felt and knew their full self-worth.
You don’t need to be coming home to kids at the end of the day to be a good person that can do great things. To assume someone is less deserving and un-American, as Vance has suggested, un-American in itself.
One could ask how deserving is he to be in our U.S. Senate and a potential vice president with his extreme prejudices? To go so far as to say, “Couples without children have sociopathic tendencies.” He either doesn’t know the meaning of the word or he’s blatantly turning a blind eye with his running mate.
Trump often talks about himself in a third-person and obsesses over a 30-year-old movie, “The Silence of the Lambs,” about a serial killer wo eats people and skins dead women. How rich it is to sling mud at those who are just exercising their rights as Americans to choose what kind of family that’s right and best for them when Trump has all the classic signs of a sociopath.
Here’s what I know. Straight out of the gate he is narcissistic. He thinks he is richer and smarter and more attractive and more accomplished than anyone (he said it all himself). And he expects to be treated as though he’s royalty and expects everybody else to be subservient to him. He treats others with disrespect if he can’t manipulate them, even to the point of hurting them. As we have seen with the revolving door with people coming and going throughout his life and just in his short time in office.
His narcissism even got the best of him when he tried to show the world on national television that he knew more than doctors and medical scientists suggesting they inject us with bleach for a cure for COVID; prompting warnings not to drink or inject bleach. Then turned around and said, “I never said that!
Like he has done about many things. He is a liar and a master manipulator. He will lie at the drop of a hat without batting an eye to make himself look good or throw someone else under the bus to save his own skin. Like he did with Jan. 6th, declaring he didn’t incite the attack while those who did it sit in prison saying, “We did what Trump wanted us to do.”
Or how he tried to manipulate state officials to come up with more votes to win the 2020 election. He says he didn’t; they say he did. It’s always his word against others and it’s been that way all his life. He’s like a mob boss manipulating and strong-handling to get what he wants.
Just like he did with Pres. Zelensky, holding back aid until he came up with dirt on Biden. Trump has no remorse for the pain and suffering he causes others in other countries or in his own backyard. Cheating service and blue collar workers out of hard-earned money he owed; or scamming trusting people with his fake Trump charity organization and his fake Trump University that wasn’t worth the paper it was written on.
No different then as it is today. He shows no regret for the pain and suffering he causes others. Even bragging and taking credit for taking women’s reproductive rights away and giving it to the states. And how’s that going? Stories are being told of devastating lives with no fault of their own. But he doesn’t bat an eye as if he’s oblivious to a reality that is not his own.
But then to no surprise he shows another sociopathic disorder; an obsessions for violence. How many times did we hear him say, “Knock the crap out of them and I’ll pay for your attorney’s fees!” And then laughed and joked when one man did take and beat an elderly man in the head with a hammer that nearly killed him. Or when he depicted himself online taking a baseball bat to a district attorney’s head (so mafioso). Or when he said, “I can shoot anyone on Fifth Avenue and no one would care!”
He says and does things that an average normal person would not. Trump’s lack of love can’t go unmentioned with what is his first wife Ivona said, “Donald only loves himself. He’ll pretend he loves you until he can’t get what he wants.” Like he did with Mike Pence? He loved him and his wife and kids and couldn’t say enough about him; until he want him dead.
Trump’s love and compassion is beyond pal when he gave this advice to his nephew whose son is severely handicapped, “Just let him die and move to Florida. You’ll be happier.”
Donald’s spontaneous behaviors with the things he says and does personally and politically is careless and reckless yet he wears it like a badge of honor like most sociopaths do. Whether one thinks Donald J. Trump is a sociopath or not, I’ve known the finest people without children that have far better orals and standards than him.
J.D. Vance needs to get off his high horse pointing the finger and name-calling and stop with the “pot calling the kettle black!”
J.M.
