To the Editor,

After listening to plaintive responses as to why the GOP lost elections held in New York, Maryland and Virginia, I’m at a loss as to why these frustrated elephants can’t fathom the real reason for their humiliating defeats. The elections I speak of are the mayorship of New York city and the governorships of Maryland and Virginia.

Repeatedly and ad nauseam we hear flawed messages from GOP political strategists, viz., a less-than-expected turnout on the part of their constituents, not to mention voting irregularities favoring their opponents. These claims might make sense only in a sane voting system.

But do we any longer have such a system? The answer is no. I submit that the vast number of citizens residing in the large cities receiving government largess upon which they rely entirely for their livelihood has no interest whatsoever in issues affecting the citizenry at large, and has become conditioned to only vote for those promising the most stuff, just like the lowly epsilons in Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World” who squeal like pigs for their daily supply of soma, a drug perfected to ensure one’s tranquility throughout the day. The epsilons are at the bottom of the barrel in a class-defined society and little is expected of them, so long as they get their soma and everyone’s therefore kept happy.

What this all means is that half of the population in the United States is presently working to keep a large, able-bodied but idle segment well-fed and sheltered. Perhaps fear of meeting this obvious problem head on and being branded with the time-worn label “racist”, or even worse, prevents politicians from promulgating this ugly, glaring truth. Even our combative President Donald Trump appears reluctant to address this issue openly.

Can we thus expect things to get better? I hardly think so. But anyway, let’s make able-bodied men presently subsisting entirely on free stuff seek gainful employment, whether it be in the field of AI or exercising a mop or a broom.

Why not make this happen for the sake of hard-working Americans presently being dragged down by an idle populace continuously demanding more freebies from their industrious counterparts, and who are abetted by spineless politicians who willingly oblige their demands.

With supportive law and order it can’t get any worse than it is now.

Gail Wickstrom

Sebring, Oho

(formerly of Newell)