Trump’s polarizing effect
Re: Clinton Cleans Up Better, Barbara Kay, Oct. 12; Election Reaches Nasty, New Low, Conrad Black, Oct. 13. With these words, “If Trump can spend the last month of the campaign showing some dignity as he focuses,” Conrad Black demonstrates he has not really being paying attention to Donald Trump’s primary and presidential runs. “Dignity” and “focus” — really?
Trump is now down to the Hillary Clinton haters, a club that seems to count Black as a member. Everyone else knows that “dignity” and “focus” would never be words associated with a Trump presidency either and they are wisely burying that possibility, for the country’s dignity. Bill Kerson, Toronto.
Conrad Black demonizes the Clintons by saying that they will “notoriously do anything to win.” Does he not realize that they don’t have to do a thing. We’ve got Donald Trump doing everything to lose! Rob McAuley, Burlington, Ont.
Those who see the Republ i can Party elite turning against their own presidential candidate as proof that Donald Trump is unfit to be president of the United States are wrong. The U.S. has been from its inception a twoparty country. In all those years, members of both parties have come to realize that they have a nice cozy monopoly, and in their many private meetings they worked out an unwritten agreement that they will do everything in their power to maintain their political oligopoly.
Hence, their attacks on Trump, who is not a professional politician and likely to endanger their sweet deals due to his popularity with the average Americans, tired of the broken promises by professional politicians of both parties and who has seen his disposable income stagnate while the sinecures of the political parasites continue to expand. Therefore, the GOP elite reason, better be in the opposition and hold on to our privileges than being kicked out of politics by the voters in the next election. L. J. Gomez, Ste- Martine, Que.
What Trump has done doesn’t come close to what Bill Clinton, who is part of the Clinton team has done even in office, and precisely, the Oval One. And that doesn’t come close to what Hillary Clinton’s profanity amounts to in supporting wars against sovereign countries, the latest amounting to a total devastation of Libya.
Now she blames President Vladimir Putin and Russia for Syria, the greatest irony I’ve ever heard: Russia and other Syria allies are the only parties who are serious about annihilating the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant now in Aleppo — the head choppers and suicide bombers whose evil deeds the U.S. and Britain have been waxing eloquent about defeating for some time now. Doris Wrench Eisler, St. Albert, Alta.
It is hard to believe that the U. S. and its main political parties cannot put up two better candidates for the presidency. As a student of the American elections since F. D. Roosevelt and an admirer of that country most of the time, it is quite evident that Hillary Clinton enriched herself while in office and did not think the security of the country mattered by using a private server so as to hide her financial dealings. Donald Trump is an avowed racist, an inexperienced political beginner with a big mouth that does not attach to a brain that fathoms using underhanded methods in foreign affairs can result in millions of deaths. The American electorate deserves better. Murray Rubin, Toronto.
Despite the crudeness exhibited by Donald Trump, the key reason many people in the U. S. will vote for him is America’s poor quality of public education. As Albert Einstein said: “Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think”.
The substantial support for Trump in the presidential election campaign clearly shows a fundamental lack of critical thinking on the part of many American citizens. It also demonstrates that the single most important step they need to take for the betterment of their society is to strive for quality public education.
The basic lesson to be learned from this presidential election is that a nation can only be truly free to the extent that it champions education — for it is the truth that makes us free and the path to the truth is education. John Sbragia, Bowen Island, B. C.