It’s Easier Than We Think

To Marjorie Morgan: Hillary Clinton is a hawk and a Wall Streeter. When she advocated toppling Muammar Gaddafi’s regime in Libya — which has led to constant violence there and in neighboring countries — she rejected the opposing advice of Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and his generals. Her positions are not similar to Bernie Sanders’s — not on full Medicare for all, on a fifteen-dollar minimum wage, on waging peace, on regulating Wall Street and breaking up the big banks, and on tuition-free college education, to name a few. The WikiLeaks disclosures showed how the pro-Hillary Democratic National Committee worked to undermine Sanders’s campaign.

To Matthew Eggers: Every American has an equal right to run for office, third-party candidates included. As Al Gore himself recognized, he lost because of the Electoral College (Gore won the national popular vote), the three hundred thousand Democrats in Florida who voted for George W. Bush, Florida governor Jeb Bush’s electoral system abuses, and the judicial coup d’état by the five Republicans on the U.S. Supreme Court, who blocked the state-wide recount ordered by the Florida Supreme Court. Absent any one of these, Gore would have won.

Also, the many hurdles confronting driverless cars — such as negotiating dense New York City traffic, resisting dangerous hacking, and gaining motorists’ confidence — should give pause to any proponent of them.