OPINION:
Our country needs to have more political moderates and centrists than we do now. I think we were better off in the 1960s, when about 20%-30% of us considered ourselves to be “in the middle of the road.” Today this figure has gone down to about 10%-15%.
I miss the times when most Democrats and Republicans used to disagree, but “with respect.” That ship sailed a long time ago. While I am definitely on the side of one of the two warring political tribes, I am still a 1960s, Bobby-Kennedy-style liberal Democrat, and I refuse to view conservative Republicans as my enemies even though a lot of them make it very hard not to do so.
I think we were better off when most elections were decided by the 20%-30% who were in the middle of the road. They had open minds. Most of us don’t anymore.
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STEWART B. EPSTEIN
Rochester, N.Y.
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