To the Editor:

Michael Kinsley (“Stirred, Not Shaken,” Op-Ed, Jan. 6) thinks that Americans have it “pretty good” and actually long for “protection from change” in a rapidly evolving world of globalization. I don’t believe that is what voters are demanding.

Here’s what we want changed: the gridlock in Washington, the ascendancy of corporations and lobbyists, the disintegration of our democratic protections, the torture of prisoners, the lack of an immigration or environmental policy, a wasteful war in the Middle East, the outsourcing of jobs.

To suggest that things are going well and that we voters are fearful of change is condescending and out of touch. The change we want is for our government to work for us again.

Judith Treise
Minneapolis, Jan. 7, 2008

Note from KBJ: “We”? Speak for yourself, Judith.