To the editor:
Being allowed to choose between candidates preferred by lobbyists and party officials is not the type of “democracy” the American people need right now. This may have been acceptable in earlier times when the issue of money controlling politics was less critical, but nowadays the military-industrial complex and Wall Street are leading us toward perpetual war and the destruction of the middle class. ("Is the GOP primary rigged?," editorial, April 14)
Republican candidate Donald Trump is perfectly correct that the system is corrupt and Americans need to become outraged by this. The editorial talks about Trump not understanding the rules, but it's been made quite clear that the Republican Party can make or change rules at virtually any stage in the process (as it did with convention Rule 40B, originally designed to stop Ron Paul in 2012).
It is also clear that our biased media are part of the problem. A free press is valued and needed to protect us against repressive government, but now we have a media attempting to preserve government corruption and attack those who are trying to reform the process.
Richard Keeling, Torrance
Note from KBJ: "Corrupt" is an understatement. The rules are designed to stop a particular candidate who is much beloved by ordinary, everyday, hard-working, God-fearing people.
