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Letter: Clinton, Trump: A vote for the least pathetic
Op-Ed · May 27, 2016
The future of what I have long considered my Democratic Party in service to the American people, if it is to still have a meaningful one, lies with the masses of daughters, sons, grandkids, nieces, nephews and neighbor kids of us all.
This is the generation of under-age-30-voters of the future that by a 4-to-1 margin stand with Bernie Sanders as he stands with them and for prying loose from national malaise a better future for us all.
Hope and support for doing this has been broadly demonstrated in our nation’s college and university towns, and cities of which some of the enlightened members of mankind have been historically and increasingly entrusted to fuel an advancing future of research, learning and training to make progress. These are the communities where Bernie Sanders is consistently favored by 60 percent of voters of all ages. From within and out of such places have long come energetic, thoughtful and forward looking young people and new ideas that have matched hope with the determination of can-do elder Americans that together with good intention twice elected Barack Obama president of the Unites States of America.
Now with a need to accomplish what for too long has been left to idle wish in place of doing, it makes no sense to reject joining together with energetic youth to undertake the nation’s most important business. At this hour of national uncertainty we as a people cannot allow ourselves to be discouraged from great purpose by any dooming and dummying down by a passing establishment and apparatchik of both political parties that have loyalty to big money over worthwhile meaning and who are willing to disregard the hopes, dreams and undaunted determination of all of the young and old that need to build for themselves within their nation a place in the sun and warmth of an ever better and better America.
I will neither vote for Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, nor any candidate for office that supports either of them. If I were to do so I would signal to those I will leave in posterity that this remarkable land that was passed on to us by the hard work and determined sacrifice of the Greatest Generation and those before them has become one in which we now settle for second best and more puttering around in the messes that are to be left to next generations that are largely ignored in place of welcomed as party members involved in reaching ever higher and better. What a REMARKABLE slogan to leave to blunt a dream of doing better: “We voted for Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump because one of them did not appear to be as pathetic as was the other.”
Sam Osborne
West Branch
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