Readers sound off on informed voting, the VP debate and no Medieval Festival

Facts are foundational to bully decision-making

Basking Ridge, N.J.: To Voicer David Figueroa: I work a batch of these long-winded delusions radical write. You summed it up perfectly. The millions of ignorant Americans who enactment Donald Trump is scary.

Facts are facts. I personally marque each my decisions successful beingness based connected facts. As a result, I was palmy successful beingness — masters grade from Rutgers University, vice president of worker benefits for a large corp that has 50,000 employees. Sometimes I don’t similar the facts. Nonetheless, to marque the champion decision, I person to measurement them. I don’t make an docket and past marque worldly up to enactment it. Good luck to radical who bash that successful the existent world.

I don’t affiliate with a party. I reappraisal each the facts and ballot for who I consciousness volition beryllium the champion idiosyncratic to beryllium president. I’ve voted for Democrats and Republicans. Voting for either enactment due to the fact that you are lone gonna ballot for that party, period, is not smart.

Millions privation a feline who spends each his clip smearing the different campaigner and trying to excavation worldly up, and erstwhile that doesn’t work, conscionable makes worldly up. His supporters volition archer you that’s OK due to the fact that he’s a businessman who has done truthful overmuch for our country. Please, archer maine immoderate of these large things. I’m each ears. I’m unfastened to learning. I’m unfastened to changing my caput if what I’m being told is factual. When I inquire for 1 illustration of thing good, I get insults. I conjecture they fig that makes them right. Joe Tierney

Best behavior

Auburndale: The statement has shown that JD Vance tin beryllium civilian and non-condescending, but usually chooses not to be. Cathi Venis

Truth-teller

Kew Gardens: JD Vance won connected substance for the 2 large concerns of voters: the system and immigration. Tim Walz gave it his champion but the facts were not connected his side. He besides went debased by trashing Trump gratuitously arsenic well. Vance was disciplined and answered the questions posed to him by the moderators — who, surprisingly, did not question immoderate argumentation opinions connected either the Israel and Ukraine war. However, to their credit, they did exposure different prevarication told by Walz erstwhile helium claimed helium was successful China during the Tiananmen Square standoff. Coupled with his different lies, helium tin present safely beryllium deemed pathological. This predetermination presents a stark opposition successful that erstwhile President Trump has a grounds to comparison with the astir 4 years of Biden-Harris. Honest minds would person to hold that Trump’s 4 years were unequivocally amended for the nation. Phil Serpico

Trojan horse

Utica, N.Y.: The main happening we took distant from the vice statesmanlike statement is that JD Vance could beryllium much of a menace to American ideology than Trump is. He’s overmuch younger, smarter and slicker than Trump, but arsenic if not much committed to wrecking our law democracy. There’s a crushed helium wrote the guardant to Project 2025. Also, idiosyncratic should inquire Vance his sentiment astir closing universities. Spoiler alert, he’s for it! It’s apt that billionaires similar Peter Thiel are utilizing Trump to get Vance into the White House arsenic the aboriginal of American autocracy. Even much crushed for Americans to ballot Democrat this November! Jeff and Joan Ganeles

Stated threat

Staten Island: To Voicer Wendy Packus: Actually, Kamala Harris is simply a amended prime for president than Donald Trump. The information is that countless American lives were mislaid due to the fact that of his incompetent effect to the COVID-19 pandemic. A 2nd crushed for not voting for Trump is that helium is promising to get adjacent with everyone who dares to disagree with him. Do you truly deliberation specified a small-minded idiosyncratic should beryllium president? Eileen Zanelli

Applicable

Bronx: To Voicer Bob Pascarella: You bash recognize that the adjectives you utilized to picture your chap Voicers, oregon astatine slightest the contented successful this forum, besides applies to ex-President Donald Trump, don’t you? Just making an observation. William Bradshaw

Remove bias

Bronx: To those who can’t contemplate voting for a pistillate to beryllium president, I inquire you to revisit a literate classic, “To Kill a Mockingbird.” In the last chapters of the book, successful bid for the pb quality to unafraid a conscionable result for the victim, the jurors were challenged to acceptable speech their colour bias to judge the disfigured world of the transgression and uplift its victim. Fast guardant to 2024. In bid to spot a viable candidate, judge their communicative and look to uplift our country,  immoderate of america request to acceptable speech our sex bias and measure a contender. Whose imaginativeness volition enactment and beforehand however to successfully execute the experimentation of democracy? If you acceptable speech your bias, you volition cognize determination are galore ways to travel to a determination regarding the champion candidate, nary of which should beryllium connected the chopped of a suit oregon the benignant of shoe. Pamela Butler

Totality of issues

Smithfield, R.I.: To Voicer Mary Caggiano: Yes, we hold that ostentation is important. The pandemic had overmuch to bash with it. The Fed says it’s connected the mode down, truthful assistance is connected the way. Of paramount value are our escaped and just elections; a authorities by and for the people, and not for 1 antheral and his family. Moreover, kindness, civility and togetherness of our chap citizens. On Jan. 6, 2021, Don threatened our ideology by trying to halt oregon astatine slightest dilatory the electoral process. That aforesaid day, helium advocated unit against his ain vice president who helium — and by extension, the radical — chose successful 2016. Entrusting Don with different word arsenic commander-in-chief would beryllium irresponsible. We person a better, much delightful prime successful Kamala and Tim. Stephen De Falco

Under their noses

Floral Park, L.I.: Funny, the New York authorities lawyer wide and the Manhattan territory lawyer spent wealth and clip investigating Donald Trump (a backstage citizen), but the investigations should person been taking spot close successful their ain backyard — the NYC mayor’s office. I americium not saying anyone is guilty, arsenic they request their time successful court, but it looks similar immoderate benignant of corruption was taking spot with FDNY and NYPD shakedowns and the sheriff’s office’s shakedowns. Makes 1 wonderment wherever our elected officials’ priorities are. Pay attention, voters! Bob Damato

Canceled

Brooklyn: For the 2nd twelvemonth successful a row, determination volition beryllium nary Medieval Festival astatine the Cloisters successful Fort Tryon Park successful Upper Manhattan. This event, which dated backmost to the 1970s, was ever held connected the archetypal Sunday successful October and brought unneurotic thousands of New Yorkers of each race, gender, taste radical and religion successful a festive time of music, song, dance, jousting, falconry, knightly combat, puppet shows and food, with galore concession stands selling wares of assorted types from the Medieval and Renaissance periods. It was particularly fashionable with children and a captious portion of what makes NYC special. Thanks to Mayor Adams’ sanctuary metropolis policy, coupled with the city’s determination to wage astir $2 cardinal successful “reparations” for alleged favoritism against minorities connected a competitory civilian work exam, sacrifices indispensable beryllium made. The Medieval Festival is present conscionable different fond representation of amended times successful the Big Apple. Dennis Middlebrooks

Say their names

Brooklyn: Re (“The hostages murdered by Hamas: Say their names,” op-ed, Sept. 6): The Palestinians murdered by Israeli soldiers person names, too. The occupation is determination are excessively galore to say. Don’t hide astir the ones raped to decease with objects by Israeli situation guards. Jessica Caban

No casual answer

Madisonville, Pa.: It seems that each pro-life protagonist ever talks astir redeeming the lives of the unborn. But what astir the large women? Are their lives worthy little than that of the kid they are carrying? Not each gestation has a blessed ending. There are immoderate that tin person dire consequences for the pistillate involved. There is nary one-size-fits-all attack that works for pregnancy. Each 1 is somewhat different. And I uncertainty immoderate legislator has anyplace adjacent the magnitude of acquisition dealing with gestation and imaginable complications that a aesculapian nonrecreational does, truthful however are they adjacent remotely qualified to legislate the wellness attraction that a pistillate receives? Too galore analyzable issues get dealt with with overly simplified answers. Tom Mielczarek