Dear Editor:

As I walked out to Sherman Street Monday morning to watch the Labor Day rodeo parade with my granddaughters, I was shocked to see an endless procession of vehicles bearing enormous Trump flags. There were about 20 such vehicles, followed by the usual parade of fire trucks. That was it. It also appeared that most of the Trump trucks were not from around here.

Had I known that the Labor Day rodeo parade was going to be an obviously premeditated Trump rally, I might have rallied my friends and decorated our vehicles for Harris. But that never occurred to me, because turning this community event into a political rally would be wrong.

But doing wrong, to divide the community, is what the Trump gang is all about. Seeing all those American flags desecrated by flying alongside the flag of a traitor was a sickening irony, and the desecration of Labor Day by the gang who would crush labor and promote corporate greed added insult to injury on this national holiday.

I am only thankful that my granddaughters were too young to recognize what a shameful display this was, so that they could enjoy the fire trucks.

David Olson

Ridgway