Dear editor:

Yesterday’s suggestion that political discussion should continue apart from campaign seasons is a good one.

One challenge is the question which asks if there exists a season apart from campaign seasons. A need, which is lacking is the disappearance of the “ watchdog press,” which has been both the intellectual understandings and the ambition to report on both parties with investigative probity, exposing their weaknesses and phony claims. Yes, even their strengths could be announced.

We could hope for creating a firewall of commonly shared knowledge, which could defend us from all the false claims, which undermine our ability to arrive at good decisions. We need more light, better philosophy, and less heat.

“…the anger of man does not work the righteousness of God” (James 1: 20).

Truly yours,

Leonidas H. Miller

Mattoon