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Dear Editor:
Honestly, I hardly ever discuss politics outside of a small group of family and friends. It’s just not worth the emotions and turmoil that may come about as a result of such discussions in open company.
People have ALWAYS had hard-wired beliefs about one political party or the other – since America was formed it has been our right to be wrong. And few of us are about to have our minds changed for any reason, logical or illogical. It’s just the way it is.
Lately though, I have felt that as we approach the upcoming election season, with all that is at stake, we truly are all ensnared in a dilemma.
Consider this: is anyone who is offering to lead the country honestly a good choice? I don’t think it matters which party you pledge your allegiance to, neither one is offering what I would boldly call “the right man.”
Age is most definitely a factor here. Why is it that no man or woman of middle age – or younger – has the abilities, the traction, the following to fill the most important executive job in the country? Are we really going to be forced to re-employ one of these tired old men? What happened to our younger generations? Or is the job at hand just so undesirable that no one cares to fight for it?
The dilemma is real. Neither of the main candidates have much appeal and to choose between them is more likely going to be a choice against, rather than for. So we will hope to settle for the lesser mess, I guess. The least problematic. The least disliked – or even the least hated.
What could be the solution? A third-party candidate? That never has worked in the past and will probably never work ever. All a third party does is chop up the fragile balance that exists now. It never results in that third party winning – at least not in presidential elections.
Is there a solution?
Let’s be honest – we really are facing a most dismaying reality that we are screwed – no matter which old guy wins, we are going to be toast, or worse. The divide which exists now can only result in unimaginable problems.
Morris Bedlam
Indianapolis