Such a nose-ring devotion to leaders becomes problematic when those leaders lack the intellectual bandwidth to examine huge and complex problems and try to attain workable solutions. They inevitably rely heavily on their advisers, who more often than not mirror their advisees in brain power and inevitably give poor advice with the predictable poor outcome.
Paul Wilson
Seattle
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I've never cried after a presidential election. I've cheered or booed, but never cried. This year, I cried. I haven't even been speechless after a presidential election. This year, I am speechless. How can someone, let alone the president, get away with so much crap?
I can't just pooh-pooh 2000's stolen election or sweep four years of the Bush administration's hypocrisy under the carpet. And I thought I was in the majority. (What is wrong with Bush supporters? Are they blind?) I don't know what bothers me more—that Bush "won" or that "the voters have spoken." This isn't brain surgery; the president of the United States lied to us.
Thanks to Knute Berger for writing "Our House of Horrors" [Mossback, Nov. 3]. Let's console each other, dust off our weary legs, and get back to work, because there is so much to be done.
Sarah Montgomery
Seattle
In the aftermath of the president's re-election, Knute Berger moans wistfully for an "alchemist who can turn this shit into gold," but all he's done is demonstrate once again his knack for turning ink into shit [Mossback, "Our House of Horrors," Nov. 3].
Berger claims Bush has been a divider of the U.S. sociopolitical spectrum. That's rich, for Berger himself does a fine job in using the royal "we" to claim that half of America is as dug-in, stuck, and afraid as he evidently is. Berger and his cronies in the professional-dissenter trade need to get out more; try and understand the red shift of the country instead of reflexively cursing it.
Rather than crying out for an übervater to fix everything wrong in the world (including the busted, unhappy lives of overage radicals), how about adding to the political process? Berger's chronically subtractive blue attitude clashes badly with America's new purple, and has become quite predictable and tiresome.
Alex Templeton
Seattle
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