Opinion: Public Discourse Spewed By GOP Won't Go Unanswered

To the editor:

On July 21, the last day of the Republican National Convention, NextGen Climate, CREDO, United We Dream Action, People’s Action, 350 Action, People for the American Way, Move On and their allies organized a peaceful nationwide expression of outrage at the Republican presidential nomination of Donald Trump.

Here in Wayne I coordinated one of those local events at the corner of Packanack Lake rd and Route 23. between the hours of 4 to 6 p.m.. During those hours we set up a voter registration table as well as our signs as we handed out voter registration forms to a number of people who decided it was time to register themselves, friends, family members, and co workers out of concern for what they are reading and hearing on the evening news coming out of the republican convention.

As hundreds, if not thousands, of drivers passed by, a great many of those drivers and passengers waved and honked their horns in an expression of support and some even took the time to stop and express support at the side of the road on such a hot day for a very timely and important matter of mutual concern.

As the hours ticked by a dozen or so very angry and disagreeable individuals also drove by including some who stopped by shouting insults and hurling epithets and hand gestures, with one man even going so far as demanding to see my 'permit' (a permit that the city clerk had already advised me some days prior was not required).

But, there was no reasoning with that individual nor most of the others who expressed their different point of view who saw fit to express and represent themselves, their party, and its candidate in such a revealing and telling negative manner that all too often has manifested itself from the dais in the remarks Donald Trump himself has uttered threatening harm and violence to anyone who dared to disagree with him.

And so the point was made, seen, and heard in 71 cities across 24 states, that the sort of public discourse being spewed out by the republican party will not go unanswered in November.

Stewart Resmer,
An Independent voter of Wayne