To the Editor:
Since I grew up idolizing John and Bobby Kennedy, voting for George McGovern, and opposing the war in Vietnam and Jim Crow laws, I should therefore support Bernie Sanders in the New York primary.
Is he an idealist, a dreamer? Sure, but so was John Kennedy when he pledged to put a man on the moon, and so was the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. when he envisioned equality for all. And so was I as an 18-, 25-, 40-year-old.
But if Hillary Clinton is almost surely going to be the eventual nominee and if the objective is ultimately to keep the meanspirited Ted Cruz or the fear-mongering Donald Trump out of the White House, shouldn’t I vote for Mrs. Clinton?
A big dilemma. Heart or brain?
MICHAEL LISSAUER
Melville, N.Y.
Note from KBJ: How about spleen?
