Vote was convincing mandate

To the editor:Marian Martin warned in her recent letter of "dubious politicians" (Democrats) seizing control of the country while all us real Americans had our backs turned. I have a theory. The liberals were hard at work using their mind powers (which were gained from years of drug abuse and godlessness) to paralyze the good voters of this country with apathetic thoughts, although I don't know how they found the time between building abortion clinics, raising taxes and letting in illegal immigrants.

Or maybe 40 percent of the voting population is actually quite a large group of people. How high does voter turnout have to be for a party which won the majority to declare it has the mandate of the people? 80 percent? 90 percent? Maybe 100 percent?

The fact is for the first time a majority party was removed from both houses of Congress. If that's not a mandate of the people, then I don't know what is.

JOHN BRADSHAW, Cape Girardeau