Nancy Peterson, Huntley, Ill.

Letter to the Editor

I am a 71-year-old graduate of the University of Iowa who studied history and economics and grew up hearing stories of how grandpa lost the farm during the Great Depression and cried when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt died, saying "He was the only one that ever tried to help us." I was a Democratic precinct captain for 20-plus years.

Starting with Bill Clinton,the Democratic Party changed; the seeming majority of it — establishment — now more beholding to Wall Street than to the common good of the majority of average Americans. So, it became apparent to me that it no longer represented me, and I became an independent.

I encourage all of you in the "first in the nation" state, whether Democrat- or Republican-leaning, to caucus for Bernie Sanders if you would like to see us return to being a nation that looks out for the common good of average Americans. I have followed him for many years, and find him the "real deal." I respect and trust him and believe he is our only hope to sanely turn our country around and "make it great again."

— Nancy Peterson, Huntley, Ill.