To the editor:

Anyone with a rudimentary understanding of economics realizes that if demand is high, prices rise, and when demand is low, prices recede. As a for instance, if you’re a golfer in our globally-warmed Minnesota winters, your golf options are limited by the small number of courses that are willing to subject the track to the ravages of hackers hearty enough to subject themselves to moderately comfortable temperatures. Course conditions, not withstanding, the open courses have no qualms about charging full prices for the novelty of winter golf. Likewise; even during peak spring, summer, and fall golf; prices are inflated on weekends and holidays because of the burgeoning demand.

On the flip side of that demand coin, courses have lower rates for weekdays and fall rates as golfers are more scarce or having to hunt through leaves. My point…demand is high now for politicians to get back to their constituents during recess and address people’s distress concerning the DOGE cuts. These representatives, however, have capitulated to partisanship and parasitically attached themselves to the new administration, which seems bent on sticking it to average Americans.

The early returns on town halls have put the GOP in an uncomfortable position. Thus, Speaker Mike Johnson has instructed his party to skip town halls because angry demonstrators are the work of “professional protestors.” And he knows this how…? So demand is high, but the supply line is being cut.

As the English language keeps expanding, they’re afraid of being “primaried.” (American Heritage Dictionary didn’t have this verb in my old college resource.) Now they’re afraid of being “town-halled.” (This hasn’t been a verb until right now.)

Keith R. Klawitter

Morgan