To the editor: Jonah Goldberg presents some salient observations on the reasons for the closeness of the 2024 presidential election, however he fails to spotlight 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 now not register as a Democrat or a Republican.
The impression could be related, 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 choice 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 potential for a single, nationwide presidential major by which voters wouldn’t be restricted by their social gathering 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 similar to me.
However he didn’t point out independents as soon as, so I’ll.
Independents grew to become the biggest voting block as a result of voters bought bored with seeing each Democrats and Republicans being managed by Massive Enterprise and Massive Cash. Typically, we’re fiscal conservatives (don’t spend more cash than you absorb) and liberal on social points (pro-choice, pro-gay marriage and so forth).
Hopefully, a candidate will emerge sooner or later who displays America’s largest voting bloc.
Vaughn Hardenberg, Westwood
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To the editor: Goldberg writes as if this election is just a political battle. This ignores the Trump marketing campaign’s tradition conflict posture and pandering to a “Christian” citizens; ignores his legal habits and still-unresolved legal accountability in a number of instances; and it ignores the stoking of worry and anger by always mendacity about historical past, present occasions, his non-solutions to these occasions and his personal previous habits.
This isn’t political. The Republicans do that through the use of race, faith and gender as wedges pushed into the material of our society.
That is now 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
