Ezra Klein: Liberals Thought Opinion Guru

     Ol' Ezra had the bully pulpit in Sunday's NYT's. No matter that his repetitious prose has approached boring, obvious, and hollowed-out rigid pronouncements. The poor man has been blind for years; blinded by his own biases. So, he claims he's overcome his youth experience in a far right section of Southern California. He also claims to have studied liberalism: its origins and history.

     Now he would have those NYT's readers believe that he knows not only what ails the Dems in general , but also what will turn the party ship around as it speeds toward irrelevance and the dustbin of history. His efforts hint of the upcoming NYC mayoral election, several Gubernatorial elections , and the 2026 midterms which will most likely not affect the Republican party's hold on Congress or the White House, now occupied by the criminal-in-chief.

       What I failed to read in Kline's column was any reference to a need of the Dems to get out the vote. More voters in an election leads to better outcomes. This is a fact of voting history, especially in a representative democracy.  How can the country, the Democratic Party, expect better outcomes when 92 millions of eligible voters fail to appear during an election? some pundits claim that more voters would not have altered the last election results. Hmmmm. Based on what?

      Looking at European Democracies, one sees a different variety(ies). The representative government bodies are more diverse than the US version. Instead of the 2-party system, they endure  systems that exist with multiple parties representing more diverse groups of voter citizens. America in contrast, embraced the 2-Party system as a better form; and then capped the number of elected representatives over 100 years ago, effectively isolating those elected officials from their constituents. Hence, a lack of participation in the process; a certain abandonment of participation= a lack of voters.

    So, Ezra needs to look at root causes, not just current relativism; the problem is more basic and more obvious to a casual observer.