The Advertiser-News edition of Aug. 24-30 led with a letter by Dave Salmon of Sparta.
In it he states that due to widespread psychological problems and drug use of the parents of young teens and adults, they have grown into materialistic people who are activists and Democrats.
He attributes the cause to be divorced and vindictive women who take the homes, children and “half the father’s wealth.”
His misogynistic maligning of women and mothers is shocking
He also adds that a third of young people have been “legally murdered by their very own mothers.”
Please check out this letter for yourself.
Not everything is fit to print and not every letter to the editor is either.
I do not always agree with the opinions and/or political views in this column.
The First Amendment gives us our right to free speech and this is part of public debate.
Difference of opinion is healthy and welcome in a democracy - trash talk should remain unprinted.
In our time of hyper-partisanship and division, blatant venom of any kind is just echoing the deepening divide.
The root of the title “editor” - edit - is to use sense and discretion on what appears in your paper.
Every letter received for this column is not mandated to be printed just because it was sent.
We are headed into a volatile time in the next 15 to 16 months.
I am only asking for a more careful scrutiny of the submissions to the column.
I look forward to a good back-and-forth from all sides - but not incendiary garbage.
Carolyn Anderson
Hardyston