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Dear Editor,

For far too long now, Americans, all, have had to suffer the lack of decent behavior at the highest level of government leadership. All of it provides minutia to crazed media moguls who find profit in hosting and even adding to the infighting dividing our country and polarizing our citizens.

While there are those who seem to benefit from the chaos that all of it has created, the rest of the “reasonable” folks suffer, scratch their heads, and worry that the worst is yet to come. Our hope lies in common sense. The only question is then, how to insure reasonable people are heard. When our government leaders begin to show respect and tolerance for each other’s views, when fair minded debate and common sense is used to compromise and resolve civil and legal issues, when insults and banter are replaced by civil discourse at the highest level, and when true transparency and honesty begin to replace the highly questionable practices of our government leaders, then those characteristics will once again be fashionable and find their way down to our state and local leaders, our schools, and ultimately, our families.

And finally, when and if it does occur, perhaps the media will celebrate this behavior instead of sensationalizing the ridiculous juvenile antics of those same people.

Pete Kapuscinski

Dillwyn