November 5, 2014
Mitchell Berger, Esq.
350 E. Las Olas Boulevard
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33301

RE: Enough with the weather

Mr. Berger,

I am listening to President Obama say that 5 states with minimum wage increases on the ballot approved them.

I shan’t bother you with the story of Initiative and Referendum in this country. More than a century ago it was a favorite of the Progressive movement. The double helix, the DNA, the warp and the woof of modern American Liberalism, is a straight line from when Woodrow Wilson ran for Governor of New Jersey. I can’t mention Wilson without recalling that Justice Marshall called him the most bigoted and the most racist President of the 20th century. Specifically, bigoted toward Jews and racist to what were then called Colored people.

President Obama says the vox populi on the minimum wage from 5 states can be used as proof of the soundness of the proposal and why it should be become the law. It is interesting to note that wherever same sex marriage has appeared on a ballot, including Florida and California, it has been overwhelmingly defeated.

Who gets to pick which vox populi is the good one, the one that all modern American Liberals can eclectically support? Would not Logic dictate, and here you can fill in the blanks, that the goose and the gander should sip from the same trough?

I know that mALs have 24 hour chiropractors on speed dial. 4 sided triangles, squared circles, political flummery with all its attendant reversals and soul emptying sellouts are Hell on the vertebrae, both lumbar and thoracic.

I appeal to you in a sort of local hands across the aisle for you to tell me how the ukases and fiats that modern American Liberalism imposes on its votaries are assembled and then dissembled and, when their usefulness is gone, how they get sent down the memory hole.

Hope to hear from you before it gets warm[er] again.




Kevin Smith