Letter to the editor: Stuck with the evils of many ‘lessers’
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As we all know, political ads (especially the negative ones) provide nothing but untarnished truths, factual information and sincere regard for civility, untainted by name-calling, visual trickery and distorted representations. Given that high-quality cornucopia of reliable guidance, we can come to only one conclusion: There are absolutely no candidates for any offices at the federal and state level for whom we can, with clear conscience and confidence, vote.
It is not as the pope has said — that we must choose the lesser of two evils. It is that we are stuck with the evils of so many “lessers.”
Incidentally, a recent letter to the editor described how difficult participation in the current American political system is for “independent” voters, who get shut out of primaries in many states, including Pennsylvania. A similar difficulty exists for “moderates” in either of the two main parties, the only viable parties in major elections. We were warned by a number of early (Washington and Adams) and current (Drutman) thinkers about the dangers/flaws of a “two-party” system, yet here we are.
The probable divisiveness predicted by and affirmed by these thinkers is fully shown by so many letters to the editor in which writers from both “sides” take turns puking the same hateful kinds of commentary about the others — you know, the “racist, elitist” Republicans/conservatives and the “woke, socialist” Democrats/liberals.
Voting is the most important form of civic participation we have; it should not have become the miserable, tiresome process it has become because of partisan bombardments. And vote we must.
Collin T. Wansor
Greensburg