Letter to the editor: Open primaries would benefit all

Regarding the letter “Keep Pa.’s primary as is”: Pennsylvania voters should not have to just “join the party” for a choice between something better than the lesser of two evils in November.

In 2020, I can’t have been the only one who wondered why, with 330 million people in this country, the best we could do was two old white guys born in the 1940s.

Open-party primary voting would give us more relevant candidates because it would make each party less polarizing, which would contribute to rebuilding our national unity. The current system provides an incentive for party leaders to keep us at one another’s throats by focusing our attention on identity politics and the culture wars.

With nearly $5 gas-pump prices, are pronouns, critical race theory, replacement theory and the “big lie” really the most pressing problems facing our nation?

Instead of being more woke than woke on one side, and more Trump than Trump on the other, were candidates compelled to vie for independent voters, they would have to address inflation, affordable housing, education, health care and economic growth.

Open primaries will force the cynical party elites to stop wooing their radical bases and instead concern themselves with the bread-and-butter issues that truly matter to all of us.

Peter Busowski

Jeannette