Promise of rationality stamped out in the end

In his Aug. 24 letter (Democracy depends on educated populace) Bob Wynhausen performed several figure eights, if not an actual logical mobius flip. Democracy may indeed depend on an educated populace, but to the very contrary, liberals don’t.

It is essential to liberal political advancement that the populace (those voting ones) continue the spiral into ethical, logical, and informational oblivion so glaringly on display as when, oh, say … they elected Obama.

Now, slowly, those who voted for the unknown freshman senator from part of the city of Chicago, whether they be liberal or otherwise, are in fact being educated, the very thing Wynhausen ostensibly is rooting for.

Wynhausen decried “God help us if people don’t become better informed” while, in his tortured way, he assaults all those who have done so regarding this most inept, dangerous, and previously unknown (to most) presidents.

Although it would be exhausting and pointless to attempt to track Wynhausen’s sort of random thought additions through what in the beginning appeared to have the potential for a valid argument, it ended up being an argument of him against himself, and it was a draw.

He said “it is important to start with a firm accurate foundation” which liberals did not, and do not, and then he tosses out as misguided, irresponsible, and by inference homophobic, those who have begun to develop that accurate foundation of information concerning Obama.

Though Wynhausen doesn’t normally tease us with a starting premise that holds promise of rationality, he did very dependably stamp out all traces of it by the end.

TERRY LAMB

Sagle