Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) speaks at a campaign event on March 10 in Kissimmee, Fla. Sanders is campaigning in Florida ahead of “Super Tuesday 2” on March 15. (Gerardo Mora, Getty Images)
Re: Support for Bernie Sanders vision, March 9 letter to the editor.
Cheryl Kasson s letter in support of Bernie Sanders vision shows the paradox of his supporters. On the one hand, they contend that incremental progress on dealing with some of the most complex and difficult issues of our time like economic inequality is insufficient and only radical change will accomplish real progress. On the other hand, they acknowledge that radical change will take a long time (generational), so nobody should take Sanders promises as realistically achievable in the short term.
This is the dilemma that the Republicans have already encountered where politicians engage in we/they rhetoric to get elected and boast about being able to do things that never come true. The question now is whether Democrats will fall for the same old gambit of the politics of division and empty promises or pursue solutions that will require the efforts of everyone including bankers and the wealthy to make real progress towards a more perfect union.
Wesley Isenhart, Black Hawk
This letter was published in the March 12 edition.Re: Sanders win among Colorado Democratic voters (but not delegates), March 7 letters to the editor.
I was amused by the letters to the editor from Bernie Sanders supporters complaining about the Democratic caucus process in Colorado. What they always so easily ignore is that Sanders was not a Democrat until it served his own selfish interests. As a party activist, that means a lot to me.
Timothy Tribbett, Denver
This letter was published in the March 14 edition.
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