To the editor:

The idea for my last letter before the election came to me as I was attending Mass this Sunday, and might answer some of Randy Kryzmarzick’s questions. The Gospel reading spoke of Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, crying out to Jesus while he was traveling with crowds on the road near Jericho. In current times, we know Jesus to be our Lord and Savior of the World, but this was not true in Jesus’s own time. Jesus spent his time with sinners and outcasts, since they were the ones needing to be saved. The establishment hated Jesus so much that they eventually put him to death.

Our current establishment hates Trump so much that they have: wire tapped and spied on him, impeached him twice, raided his home by the FBI, convicted him in their own kangaroo courts. Sound familiar? Why does the left hate Trump so much? Maybe it’s because he will expose those corrupt persons currently in power, much like Jesus did in biblical times.

During Trump’s last term in office, we had extremely low unemployment, low interest rates, energy self sufficiency, a growing economy/GDP, and pretty much peace throughout the world. No country dared to cross the line or step on Trump’s toes. Our current leaders botched the withdrawal from Afghanistan, allowed Putin to attack Ukraine, and plays both sides with Israel and Hamas. Biden and Harris are laughed at by world strongmen. God only knows what another four years of this nonsense will come to.

In Sunday’s Gospel, Bartimaeus shouts out to Jesus as he passes by, and tells Jesus “Master, I want to see.”. Do we as citizens of the United States “want to see”? Are there enough beggars and humble, working people left in this country to vote to be saved from our current corrupt government? Trump travels with huge crowds everywhere he goes. The main stream media never shows these massive crowds or the streets lined with supporters on the way to his rallies. Is Trump as perfect as Jesus? No. No one can be. Trump is the only one strong enough to get the job done.

I pray that on Nov. 6 our country can say “Go on your way, your faith has saved you.”.

Paul Platz

Lafayette