Editor:

Sparring with Dino Wenino is fun because it is so easy.

His generalized grouping of Doris Soule, Leo Sanchez, Sam Wiseman and I into one category of folks who are all out of touch with reality is quite paranoid because we and millions of others use precisely the reality check he claims is missing ("Writers lose touch with reality," Letters/Oct. 29).

Reality is understanding what has happened in the past and knowing what similar future outcomes will be. It is also a function of life experiences, which we have collectively outnumbered him in areas of religious convictions, patriotism, morality, and the value of born and unborn life, probably 300 years to maybe 50.

The others can speak for themselves but my observation for Doris Soule is that she can be a Christian, recognize a modern-day egotistical tyrant, and say so. Obama preconditioning our youth brought to her mind the very real historical recollection of Hitler's youth movement.

Leo Sanchez, fearing criticism of Barack Obama can't be spoken without racism being assumed, has some merit. In reality we have seen exactly the opposite, as Obama used the race card as an "ace in the hole," when nothing else was working. "Did McCain mention I was black?" Remember that one?

As for me, my 20-year experience with Canadian and British governments is real but make no mistake, I am a patriot, even when a current administration messes up and threatens to interfere with our private lives. We have an excellent form of government, but because the Canadians and British vote for a party, not a man, they devised a fail-safe provision to rectify bad leadership, called "non-competency" which allows them to re-vote immediately rather than wait four years. We will wait but have our mid-terms that will help to redirect our nation.

I have lived through seeing a socialistic government taking over the auto and health insurance industries, the inefficiencies created by a bilingual language law, an overtaxed middle class, and a government literally taking over and running failed oil companies to artificially keep poorly managed doors open.

Dino's self-admitted years of wandering the land with his backpack, learning about people, is trumped by several writers having a much wider reality base.

CURT WARTICK, Casper