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Which candidate best handles domestic, global issues

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Editor,

How informed are we as an electorate? How do we make our choices when voting? Are we persuaded by sound-bites or our own research? How good have our choices for president been over the last 60 years, the eleven men from Eisenhower right on through Obama? I suggest that despite some of our seeming lack of in-depth knowledge about things, when it comes to who we actually vote into power, we do a pretty good job.

How about now? From whom are we getting our information? Have you ever listened to Samantha Powers, our very capable U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations? How about the fertile mind of Prof. Noam Chomsky who speaks and writes eloquently about world affairs and our own politics. He said this when asked about the Republican race and Donald Trump: “We should recognize the other candidates are not that different.” Hmmm, no wonder they are all having such problems dealing with all issues Trump is addressing. 

There’s an interesting article entitled:  “The Tide of History Flows Left," by James Haught, Campaign for America’s Future. He reports: “Liberals always win!” Then he points out the generations it took and a horrible Civil War for liberal abolitionists to defeat conservative slavery supporters. And this: Look how long it has taken for women to gain the right to vote, hold office and gain equal rights. How about the long battle to give couples the right to practice birth control? 

And the same pattern applies to the struggle for Social Security pensions for retirees; unemployment compensation for the jobless; equality for blacks; Medicare and Medicaid; food stamps for needy families; expanded health insurance under the Affordable Care Act; equality for gays. As Haught writes: “These stormy social conflicts ended the same way: Liberals always win. Conservatives always lose.”

Let’s ask ourselves: Who, among all the candidates for president from all parties, is best qualified to handle all the domestic and global issues without destruction to our way of life and contributing to the violent destruction of our planet?

Bob McClellan
Polson

 

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