Chances are high that if you spend any time at all reading the comments following many of the articles on Facebook you're afraid to leave your home. (I know I am.) There is so much hate out there -- seething, roiling and deranged -- it's bound to hit you sometime, somewhere, even if you are a nobody who never hurt anyone. So it's little wonder that these days the Trumps are always targets. Even Melania, guilty of nothing but being too beautiful and not smiling enough, is at the receiving end of hateful comments. Just today some Internet troll (judging by his profile picture) called her "a butt-ugly ho." Naturally a debate ensued, taking the conversation deeper and deeper into the sewer, with name-calling between total strangers reaching a fever pitch.
Why this is true baffles me. It's also what keeps me from going on business trips with my husband to big cities like Philadelphia and Chicago. Those meanies are out there. I prefer my controlled environment of lobster-loving tourists and seagoing fishermen. And so far no monuments in Maine have been defaced in the name of Democracy, which is nice. Shown here are some of our public monuments yet to be tumbled by frenzied hatemongers:
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| "Our Lady of Victories" |
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| "The Hiker" |
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| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (poet) |
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| The Maine Lobsterman |
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| Director John Ford (native son) |
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| Hannibal Hamlin (VP under Lincoln) |
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| Joshua Chamberlain (32nd Maine governor) |
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| Paul Bunyan (fictional character) |
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| George Cleeve (founder of Portland) |
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| The L.L. Bean Boot |
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| The Portland Fireman |
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