OPINION:
It is an inescapable fact that our primary system of selection of presidential nominees is broken and must be reformed. Primary voters at best represent only 10% or 15% of each party’s membership. Both the far right and left, energized by true-believer ideology, put forward candidates that would lose to “none of the above” were they on the ballot.
So when you go into the voting booth (or, more likely, fill in your mail-in ballot), you’ll be presented with the devil and the deep blue sea: Elect either a candidate who will make the White House the most expensive nursing home in the country, or a narcissistic megalomaniac with a sociopathic predisposition to revenge.
I hope they provide sick bags in the booths.
BILL KLEIN
Springfield, Illinois
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