In his letter, “Parties are all about the money” (March 24, Our Readers’ Views), Tony Sassone contends that we have a one-party system, the “corporate party,” and that there is effectively no difference between the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. He also says that he would sit out an election between Carolyn Long and Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler.
I fully agree that there is too much money in politics. To suggest, however, that there is no difference between the Democratic and Republican parties, or candidates of those parties, is nonsense, as even a passing awareness of the massive damage inflicted by the current inhabitant of the White House and his administration over the past 14 months readily demonstrates.
The only way to rid the nation and the world of the miasma that is the current administration is to vote. By all means, vote for your candidate of choice in the primary. But don’t waste your opportunity to help restore some sanity by refusing to vote in the general election just because your preferred candidate did not advance from the primary. One who chooses not to vote invites and accepts more of the same.
