To the editor: Jonah Goldberg gives some salient observations on the reasons for the closeness of the 2024 presidential election, however he fails to focus on what many centrist voters consider lies on the coronary heart of our deep political divide.
The 2 main political events have an excessive amount of of a stranglehold on the nomination course of. For a lot of centrist voters, that stranglehold primarily sidelines them fully on the major stage in the event that they not register as a Democrat or a Republican.
The affect may be comparable, nevertheless, for somebody like me who has remained a registered Democrat however would have crossed over to vote for Republican Nikki Haley in our March major had I been given the chance. As an alternative, the one non-laughable possibility I had as a registered Democrat was to vote for President Biden or not vote in any respect.
Discovering an answer is not going to be straightforward, however maybe it’s time to start exploring the opportunity of a single, nationwide presidential major by which voters wouldn’t be restricted by their get together affiliation or lack thereof. That is akin to what California now does on the state stage.
Russ Swartz, Granada Hills
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To the editor: The subheadline for Goldberg’s column was, “This election displays the truth that Republicans and Democrats have each change into minority events.” Studying this, I believed he would write about independents comparable to me.
However he didn’t point out independents as soon as, so I’ll.
Independents turned the most important voting block as a result of voters obtained uninterested in seeing each Democrats and Republicans being managed by Massive Enterprise and Massive Cash. Usually, we’re fiscal conservatives (don’t spend more cash than you soak up) and liberal on social points (pro-choice, pro-gay marriage and so forth).
Hopefully, a candidate will emerge in the future who displays America’s largest voting bloc.
Vaughn Hardenberg, Westwood
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To the editor: Goldberg writes as if this election is solely a political battle. This ignores the Trump marketing campaign’s tradition warfare posture and pandering to a “Christian” voters; ignores his prison conduct and still-unresolved prison accountability in a number of instances; and it ignores the stoking of worry and anger by consistently mendacity about historical past, present occasions, his non-solutions to these occasions and his personal previous conduct.
This isn’t political. The Republicans do that by utilizing race, faith and gender as wedges pushed into the material of our society.
That is not a solar/moon or a moon/moon political battle; it’s a man-made assault on the nation’s democratic ideas and establishments. The handicapping of this race is shut as a result of the corporate-owned media has sane-washed Trump’s authoritarian leanings and psychological decline.
David Echt, Torrance
