Clearly, Wednesday Journal strongly supports the local and national Democratic Party. Based on the recent number of letters from its readers voicing the importance of Kamala Harris being named as the new Democratic candidate for President, the written or unwritten point is how important it is she defeat that other guy. And much praise for Joe doing the right thing, and being a longstanding part of the party. Blah, blah.
As someone who, as the post-debate debacle polls clearly indicated, found the choice between Biden and Trump a testament to a dysfunctional political duopoly, I find the non-primary-tested Harris as essentially more of the same. She is marinated in corporate money and special interests as much as virtually all of Congress (do a quick fact-check on it, please. It’s public record). So we the people were given no voice in a replacement. Not that the Democratic National Committee would ever allow a Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, or the like to inject something even remotely “progressive” at the top of the ticket.
As if there aren’t millions upon millions who, as with Bernie Sanders in 2016, yearn for a non-corporate candidate. Do you any longer need to print letters that decry the hideous convicted felon and wannabe dictator? That’s stating the obvious. The urgent issue is allowing the voices of other candidates some space in your newspaper — like Independent Sanders who took those non-corporate, $26 donations and scared the hell out of the Democratic National Committee.
Isn’t the idea that the more choice the better, writ large or small? Disappointingly, as with the major media outlets, even the Journal seems to ignore such other choices, implicitly regurgitating the Big Lie that voting for anyone but a Donkey or an Elephant is a wasted vote, which is a disgusting, perpetual, negative, self-fulfilling prophecy.
Joe Harrington
Oak Park