I’ve been thinking a lot about Leah Plunkett’s recent article (Sunday Monitor Forum, July 3).
She talked about Donald Trump’s bullying behavior, and it reminded me of a woman who is supporting him. I asked her if she’d let her children talk like he talks and she was aghast. “Of course not! I’d never let my children be so rude.”
When I asked her how she could rationalize his role modeling that behavior were he president, she was taken aback. She clearly had not thought about it.
Teenagers talk about how well the rules against bullying are starting to work in school. One boy told me that kids are now monitoring each other. Another said, “We’d never be allowed to talk like that.” Then he asked, in a perplexed manner, how candidates and legislators can get away with it, and I had no answer except to describe it as poor role modeling.
There have been times in the past when I’ve been concerned and even distressed anticipating election results. I have never, until now, been frightened.
GERRI KING
Concord