Churches shouldn’t be above the law TV showman turns into demagogue

DEAR EDITOR:

I write regarding Kelowna church goers refusing to obey public health orders.

No interest group is above the law, regardless of whether or not they “feel” they are pre-ordained.

Fine them accordingly and then fine them again for continuously thumbing their pious noses at provincial public health orders.

Secular laws must prevail when the question pertains to public endangerment. These “luminaries” should know better.

Curtis Lee Smith, Delta

DEAR EDITOR:

U.S. President Donald Trump was a reality TV star, a showman, who knew how to work the media and whose easily-led supporters helped turn him into a self-styled demagogue.

But as a president and chief executive, he was out of his depth. His personal style was dysfunctional; his administrative skill was inept and juvenile and was probably a big reason why Wednesday’s Trump-inspired insurrection in Washington, D.C., failed.

But Trump did demonstrate how easily insurrection can happen, even in the world’s oldest democracy. Will it happen again?

There have always existed on the fringes of American society a small demographic of maladjusted and malcontents and for them the social media revolution has been a great equalizer.

But these rioters represented a small group of angry, even criminal agitators, the most extreme part of the 70 million who voted for Trump, which, though it sounds like a lot, only represents one in five Americans.

Trump was an incompetent president. But he did provide a model for a better skilled, smarter populist politician to come along and succeed where Trump failed.

Jon Peter Christoff, West Kelowna