We keep things local here at The Clarkston News, but I usually grant some leeway to letter writers to the editor. Readers can mostly write about whatever they like, including national issues like President Donald Trump.
That doesn’t sit well with some. One wrote to ask us not to print any more political letters at all. This is probably bleeding over from Trump’s that’s-fake-news tactic against unfavorable media coverage.
It’s from both sides. Many reporters and media figures have adopted quite the I’m-a-resistance-fighter-you-know-like-from-World-War-II attitude against the president and his policies.
We have a letters policy, established before I showed up here and which we publish occasionally, like today. It doesn’t say “local issues only,” at least not yet.
My unofficial policy is one Trump piece per writer, including me. If a person has a position for or against the president, no words exist that can change that position, anyway.
Enough about Trump. I went to see Frozen II with my nieces and nephews over the Thanksgiving weekend and I have a theory about why everyone makes such terrible decisions in that movie, and its predecessor.
Bad decisions abound in the first Frozen. King Agnarr decides to shut Elsa off from the outside world, including her own sister, Anna, in fear of her losing control of her ice powers. Anna decides to rush into an engagement with the duplicitous Hans (6-year-old spoiler!). Elsa decides to flee her friends and family, and creates an everlasting winter for her town.
Poor decisions continue in Frozen II (new spoilers). The king never tells her daughters anything of importance, including Elsa, his heir. Didn’t even leave a letter explaining things in case he and his wife Queen Iduna don’t survive their dangerous mission to the north, which they don’t. Elsa runs off by herself again. Anna is bad at communicating with Kristoff and gets herself stuck in a cave.
It turns out Agnarr’s father is also a horrible decision maker, especially in his dealings with the Northuldra, which includes treachery and murder.
Bad decisioning is genetic, is what I’m saying. This also explains why Olaf is the way be his, since Elsa made him.