I just finished reading "The Great Suppression" by Zachary Roth about efforts by some on the right to discourage voting. This book ought to be a call to arms for progressives in this country.

Roth makes a compelling case that there are efforts by some on the right to subvert the will of the people through corporate cash, voter ID laws, a conservative judicial activism or, as Heritage Foundation Founder Paul Weyrich said in 1980, "I don't want everybody to vote. Our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down."

People like Weyrich have a lot of power in the conservative movement but I don't think his undemocratic views are shared by most real conservatives.

Michael Cook

Norwich