Letter to the Editor: Fears for what’s to come for the United States

Remember when George Dubya was president of Ughmerica and we thought that things couldn’t get any worse?

Now, after an exhaustive elimination process, the birthplace of democracy has fielded its finest two candidates from a population of 330 million to compete for the position of Leader of the Free World — a mumbling geriatric who can barely remember his own name and a populist megalomaniac with the worst comb-over since Norman Gunston.

To paraphrase the great American commentator H.L. Mencken: “No one on this Earth has ever heard Donald Trump say anything intelligent.

“No one has ever heard him repeat an intelligent saying by anyone else without making complete nonsense of it.

“In the coining and dissemination of words that are devoid of meaning; in the wholesale emission of sonorous and deafening bilge; in the manufacture and utterance of precisely the stuff that the plain people admire and venerate, he has no peer under Heaven.”

“… I’m afraid of the world.”*

* David Bowie.

Craig Chappelle, Denmark

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