Struck a nerve, again

Your preposterous second-place columnist really struck a nerve when, in the midst of accusing everyone who has in any way supported the president of being a dupe of Russia if not an outright Russky agent, almost as an aside disparaged our founding fathers as a bunch of out of date 18th century white men for giving us something so horrid and outdated as the electoral college. The failure of the special counsel investigation so far to come up with any real connection between his campaign and the Russkys makes the first half of that accusation laughable, if not pathetic.

As to the electoral college, I have already enumerated on this page the considerable advantages of it, especially to small states like Arkansas, and he has already pooh-poohed them in his unconvincing way. Our brilliant founders quite intentionally gave us a representative republic rather than a pure democracy, which they rightly saw as two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. Our 18th century Constitution which Mr. Preposterous so scorns was written to protect the rights of the individual against the whims of the majority, and the inhabitants of small states from being steamrolled by the bigger ones. Traditional Constitution and liberty-loving Americans in flyover country have no desire to force their way of life and values on the huddled dependent masses of squalid coastal cities against their will. It seems Democrats, socialists, and the news media (but I repeat myself) do want to ram their anti-Constitution and anti-liberty agendas down the throats of the aforementioned Americans who for the most part just want to be left alone.

I take it back, though; in a paper that publishes Gitz, Williams, Greenberg, Nelson, and Martin, your house lefty is only less deplorable than the hate-filled and dishonest Paul Krugman. Let’s call him your preposterous second-to-last-place columnist. KARL T. KIMBALL

Little Rock