The Observation Deck

...see the truth as hate.

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.....shun transparency.
And apparently spend a good deal of their time and resources attempting to intimidate and stifle those that oppose them.

In his willful, selfish manner Summers has split this town in two. He shuns truth . He shuns transparency. He stokes divisiveness rather than offering reconciliation .
Every day he stays in office more harm is inflicted to the general welfare of Lakewood. There's a bitterness emerging from all this that will hang in the air for a very long time.