Why are people upset with Joliet’s Mayor for pushing someone who was yelling at him? The man must have been within arm’s length or pushing couldn’t have happened. The man had a right to protest but not in the Mayor’s or anyone else’s space.

Why do people want to destroy our history? We have done thousands of despicable things. We shouldn’t be trying to cover them up but should show the truth. We killed millions of Indians by giving them blankets infected with small pox and allowed white people to take houses and businesses of the ethnic Japanese we put in concentration camps in 1942. We need our sins known so we hope not to repeat them.

Why do we criticize our local, state, and federal government and then demand services when we need them? Southern states complain about the federal government, but when they get hit by a storm they are pleading for aid. People complain about having to pay taxes but they tried to get every dollar they could over the last few months.

Why do people so readily believe the stupidity, lies, and misinformation they see on the internet? Much of the wacky stuff is so obviously wrong – fact checking isn’t necessary. Our gullibility makes it easy for Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, and domestic groups to divide us.

Why do people vote for radicals when their ideas either have no chance getting passed or will be changed back when moderate, sensible people return to office. Trump has changed or overridden laws, procedures, and regulations put in force over the last six presidents. The next President will put most if not all the changes in the Oval Office trash can. Good riddance to most of them.