To the editor: Enable me to submit that columnist Jonah Goldberg is flawed concerning the genesis of red-versus-blue antagonism. It was intentionally created by the fitting to serve the pursuits of company America and the rich.
If you’re on this class, what do you do if all of the insurance policies you like are deeply unpopular and harmful to the pursuits of odd Individuals? For instance, take into account the deregulation of company America and the decreasing of tax charges on the wealthy.
Reply: You create a tradition conflict that distracts odd Individuals from defending their very own pursuits and destroys belief in mainstream information sources and different establishments which may shed any gentle on how harmful these insurance policies are.
Over a interval of a long time, the right-wing media empire has progressively insulated a big a part of America from actuality and demonized the opposite aspect.
The actual separation will not be purple versus blue; it’s that a lot of the nation that lives in a reality-based world, and far of it doesn’t. That is the difficulty that supersedes all others now. Till that is addressed, nothing might be performed to repair our issues.
Steven Schechter, Thousand Oaks
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To the editor: I principally agree with Goldberg’s evaluation of elite-driven polarization and voters punishing what they noticed as poor governance. However it’s unhappy he stopped there, principally with post-game quarterbacking.
He mentioned that Donald Trump misplaced in 2020 as a result of “voters didn’t imagine he was truly good at governing.” They didn’t need to imagine it — they knew, they noticed, after 4 years of his incompetence.
Trump, for as a lot as he needs it, can not “repair” rampant inflation. His overseas insurance policies would be the finish of goodwill and sane worldwide collaboration.
Goldberg ought to use his pulpit over the following 4 years to warn us that Individuals pays for Trump’s tariffs. That must be shouted loud and clear in every single place.
Marie Mulligan, Manhattan Seashore
