As a bleeding-heart liberal, I am grieved (once again) to see a Republican squeak out a victory over a Democrat. (June 21, 12A, “GOP narrowly hangs on to House seat in Georgia election”)
When it comes to politics in this country, it seems the big-money Republicans are always winning recently. I am beginning to despair and reassess my belief that way more people think like I do than like conservatives do. If it were so, why don’t more liberals win?
There are two possible explanations, in my opinion: Either there actually are more right-leaning voters out there or liberals just don’t make the effort to vote.
I don’t want to give up my belief that there are more liberals than conservatives, but time after time, recently, liberals lose, if only by a couple of points. I’m also beginning to fear that my fellow liberals are stupid, overconfident or just don’t care.
With the majority of African-Americans and Latinos leaning liberal, why can’t we win? Do you vote?
As a cynical optimist, I am befuddled. We must figure out a way to get out the vote.
Timothy Earl Osburn
Parkville
Note from KBJ: Does Timothy Earl Osburn not realize that "bleeding heart" means "a dangerously or foolishly soft-hearted person" (The Oxford American Dictionary and Language Guide, 1999)? Maybe his people lose elections because they're foolish.
