Dear Editor:

Quantum physics is an apt metaphor for American politics today. Why? Because it defies reason! Niels Bohr once said, “Your theory is crazy but not crazy enough to be true!”

The picture that institutions paint treats the masses as objects described by the laws of classical physics but does not account for the particles and energy formations observable in the quantum domain.

The Institutions have been systematically excluding the individual from the conversation by enacting laws that are runarounds of the public referendum and rules that exclude individuals from participating in planning or submitting community project proposals.

The individual people are like the invisible internalized state of mass governed by a very different set of laws in the quantum domain.

Institutions devise plans based on what they, from their external perspective, decide the masses think, want, and need until along comes a demagogue to serve as the people’s voice. The demagogue speaks the language of uncertainty, fluidly allowing the observer to style the meaning.

Is he bluffing, or is he not? That is the question.

If he isn’t bluffing, do the math! It isn’t fuzzy!

To balance the budget, the new admin will fire 95% of federal employees.

Federal workers will not be needed after eliminating most of the federal departments and programs.

The president-elect is announcing new tariffs daily that should put a spear through the heart of global markets causing prices of imported goods to soar.

But our president-elect will spare no expense in sending the military into workplaces and homes to haul off essential workers and place them in deportation camps. For that, the budget is unlimited!

Days ago farm groups asked for an exception as half the farm workers are undocumented. If the exception is not granted, food will become scarce and prices will escalate.

Kid yourself not, If the size of government is reduced by getting rid of everything, it will be replaced with something.

In the quantum domain, uncertainty collapses into a defined state when interacting with an observer. so don’t just be a bystander, participate.

Be here now! For the future!

Susan M. Andersen

Boothbay Harbor