October 29, 2017

State Senator Lauren Book

967 Nob Hill Road

Plantation, FL 33324

RE: 70% is more than 60% but, gosh almighty, that doesn’t make 60% “small potatoes”, does it? Some comments on your mini Op-Ed on marijuana in today’s Sun Sentinel.

Senator Book,

You’re right in your Trollope-like observation that a more than 70% yes vote on the question of legalizing marijuana should count for something.

For more than a century, led originally by that old bigot Woodrow Wilson, initiative and referendum have been the twin horizon-like Gods of Progressives. They morphed into today’s permanent scolds and nags, AKA modern American Liberals.

The problem with universal suffrage and the lack of literacy tests or property qualifications is that sometimes the wrong people vote for the wrong things. For example, it can be argued that absent the XV11th Amendment, the United States would have sat out World War 1.

What do you make of the 62% majority that voted to oppose same-sex marriage?

Doubtless, they were all “bitter clinging deplorables”, but if modern American Liberals are determined to give the vote to ex-cons – think of OJ Simpson – illegal aliens, returning ISIL/ISIS combat veterans, even those suffering from PTSD, how can we ignore this “silent majority”?

Only the modern American Liberal gift of “eclectic indignation” allows you to proclaim, without wetting your knickers, that plaid is your favorite color.

You go, Girl!

Kevin Smith