In the People's Interest

Trump, virus, trust elections, compassion

Between Trump and virus, nation has learned nothing
If we have learned anything in this past year it is that we have learned nothing. Millions of Americans have chosen to put more faith in ridiculous improbable lies than in the harsh truth of reality.
Don’t like the COVID pandemic? Call it a hoax. Don’t like Democrats? Call them socialists. Don’t like the election results? Make up another lie and cling to it like a lifeboat on the Titanic.
Meanwhile dead bodies are stacked outside hospitals like firewood, valuable health care workers are pushed to the breaking point, local morons refuse to wear masks, and our useless president
goes golfing. If this is “turning the corner,” I’d hate to see what’s around the bend.
The absurd lies offered by Trump are matched only by the blind loyalty of his delusional acolytes, many of whom would gladly take up arms for a man who cares nothing about them but uses
them as pawns to feed his starving ego. With their support he is putting our national security at peril as he fawns over dictators and alienates our allies.
As John Keats wrote 100 years in his poem “The Second Coming”: “…the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.”
Dennis Curran
Bozeman
America needs to know it can trust our elections
Whether it is the Dominion Software glitz or the defective machines should be blamed, we, the American people need to know whether we can trust our democratic process. Here are some of my thoughts about our election process.
1. Update voter’s registration List regularly every three years. Remove voters who have not voted the last three consecutive years. Use the latest census records to update. Cross check voter’s data with national change of address database.
2. Use of watermarks on the voting forms will weed out fraud voting forms.
3. Print and analyze the software used during the election. Check the installation date.
4. From the list of critical states, choose states where the winning candidate won a large margin and choose states where the winning candidate won a small margin for further verification.
5. Step four will be done after performing steps one thru three.
6. The people who will do step three or the quality control will be different from the people who were in charged during the voting process.
7. The results of step five will be reviewed by a mix party group.
8. Only after doing these six steps will the results be published and a winner declared.
9. By the Constitution, if no winner is declared, Congress will decide. But only one vote per state.
Maria Lourdes Ponti
Belgrade
Trying to find compassion for those seeking reality
Can you feel any sympathy for someone whose escalating mental illness is isolating him and leaving him alone? Is there any compassion in your heart for a person who is desperate to be loved but was personally rejected by more than 77 million people? Can you find a touch of empathy for a man who craves respect but will leave is job as a fool, humiliated because he could not accept reality?
I can’t feel these things yet but am trying because that’s what our country needs right now.
Ken Mundt
Bozeman

Bozeman Daily Chronicle Letters to the Editor 11/24/20

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