To the editor: I’m assured there isn’t any single “The Cause” that President-elect Donald Trump received. Every individual voted the way in which they did for their very own motive. I might, nevertheless, like to supply the remark that so many people are fast to sentence others who don’t agree with us. (“If Democrats need to win again the American individuals, does California want to face down?” Nov. 19)
Some progressives declined to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris due to the Biden administration’s coverage towards Israel. So, is the Trump coverage extra to their liking?
Some sincere, hard-working Individuals voted for Trump resulting from their considerations about immigration. Did they not know or care {that a} bipartisan measure to handle border safety may have handed Congress earlier this yr, however Trump killed it as a result of he wished to marketing campaign on immigration?
Being Individuals, we’ve no frequent ancestry or shared faith. We subsequently don’t have any frequent, reflexive philosophical and societal views {that a} shared tradition and faith would supply. All we are able to share — and for that very motive, what we should share — is a basic respect for one another.
As my father instructed me, there may be not an individual alive who can’t educate you one thing. Every of us, together with me, must shut up and pay attention extra.
Jack Quirk, Porter Ranch
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To the editor: On this election, for the primary time ever, I didn’t vote for anybody operating for the state Senate or Meeting. I’m a Democrat, and if Gov. Gavin Newsom had been on the poll, I might not have voted for him or his opponent — as a result of sadly, the one factor crazier than a Sacramento Democrat is a Sacramento Republican.
Newsom is to Democrats what Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is to Republicans — two peas in a pod, ideologues, however on reverse sides of the political spectrum.
I’m an elementary instructor, and California Democrats misplaced me with their newest moronic training legislation forbidding elementary colleges from taking away a pupil’s recess as a pure consequence for, let’s say, misbehaving on the playground. That is along with the legislation banning pupil suspensions for complete class disruptions. How can we educate college students if we are able to’t even preserve a classroom atmosphere conducive to studying?
Within the subsequent state election, I received’t go away my poll clean for the social gathering that dares to run a reasonable candidate targeted on utilizing present sources to search out options to urgent issues.
George Garcia, Lengthy Seashore
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To the editor: Why ought to Democrats be asking why they’re out of contact with the American individuals?
If something, they need to be asking why they proceed to imagine that the American public possesses the critical-thinking abilities required to tell apart an honorable, certified candidate from one with a protracted historical past of corruption, mendacity and sexual abuse, whose aim is to precise retribution on his enemies and make more cash.
Why do Democrats proceed to “play good” when all their opponents should do to win is stoke their base’s hatred of “the opposite” and stubbornly insist that the opposite aspect cheated with completely no proof?
How will we inform our youngsters that the nation was OK with a president who’s a felon and adjudicated sexual abuser, as a result of by no means would they vote for a feminine president?
Jennifer Rabuchin, Burbank
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To the editor: The lead story in The Instances’ Nov. 20 print version was about how California Democrats have shot themselves within the foot by being out of contact with the American individuals.
I used to be stunned that, on this lengthy article, the phrase “immigration” by no means appeared.
Following the Nov. 5 election, a number of commentators famous that immigration was a serious situation of concern to voters. Polls throughout the previous few years have proven {that a} sturdy majority of Individuals — a bigger share of voters than the proportion that backed Trump — need decreased ranges of immigration and oppose sanctuary-state and -city insurance policies.
Ben Zuckerman, Los Angeles
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To the editor: Whereas your headline suggests Democrats are trying within the mirror, the article additionally quotes Republicans about what went mistaken.
The reality is Democrats discovered the exhausting means that operating to symbolize the individuals with the assist for former Rep. Liz Cheney — an especially conservative Republican from Wyoming — wasn’t technique. Bear in mind, in Congress she voted with Trump more often than not.
And cease utilizing id politics towards the Democrats. Trump ran as a white Christian nationalist — that’s id politics.
Moreover, have a look at the precise election consequence — this was no mandate. The Democrats additionally must make it possible for each vote in each race is counted. Have a look at the congressional races in California, the place we just do that.
Democrats who run on democratic values win.
Erica Fox, Studio Metropolis
