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The liberal intelligentsia is mad at Americans again. But where the railing is usually about, say, their penchant for guns or religion, this time its about their refusal to turn out to vote.

Blasted Americans.

The lowest turnout in more than seven decades so irked the University of Wisconsins paper, the Cardinal, that it rushed out a column calling for mandatory voting. The doltish voters dont seem to grasp that this is, as The New York Times put it in an editorial, bad for Democrats.

And even worse for democracy, it added.

Never mind that we sloths managed to end Democratic control of the Senate while bestirring, in most states, fewer than half of our eligible voters.

Id have thought we deserved a medal for efficiency.

After all, just 36.3 percent of eligible voters turned out in this election. According to MSNBC, we havent seen that since FDRs last stand in 1944. Yet the decision made by these few, these happy few, was streamed in headlines across every front page in the land.

The left seems to prefer the old Soviet system. This, according to a quick check, produced a turnout in the 1950 legislative election of 100 percent. The Democrats ... pardon me, the Communists, won in a landslide.

Old Joe Stalin knew how to fire up democracy and nobody had to run any negative ads (of course, theyd have been cast into the Gulag Archipelago if they did).

Then again, by the logic of the left, the voters must have been happy as clams under the Soviet system. The Times has it that our voters stayed home because of anger and frustration at the relentlessly negative tone of the campaigns.

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