Your editorial, “Year of Democratic mayoral rebellions," (Aug. 23), was trending towards reality but is lacking in impact voters will produce in the 2015 and 2016 elections. It's not just Democrats that will feel the wrath of voters. The Republicans will be in for some surprises. Years of trench warfare by both parties have rendered the government powerless to conduct meaningful progress relating to improvements this nation needs. For Democrats it's always the same. Claims to help the poor, the middle class, in the end always mean borrowing, then spending, money we don't have. The national debt keeps growing, passed down to our children as well as their children. You can only lead the lemmings over the cliff so many times before you have a revolt.

The Republicans like the Democrats when each had control in Congress and the White House forgot the cardinal rule of government, "best interest of the people" not just your people but the nation as a whole. So yes Connecticut, so often on the list of the 10 worst in everything will be the bellwether, a test case if you will. Where are the Ronald Reagans, the Bill Clintons? 

James Miller

Salem