Letter: Now or never

Editor, Daily News:

It's unnatural for progressives/liberals to continue to kick a defeated opponent once they are on the ground.

Many of you are probably feeling the urge to give the president and his party some latitude to recover out of patriotism. I think we need to remember we are in a battle for survival, and I'm not talking about the Democratic Party. Those in power have subjugated the future of us all for their goals, which always revolve around serving powerful corporations, e.g., the oil companies. If we let them up, it's their nature to destroy us if they can.

They've put us and our children in debt and sacrificed our soldiers to fund their war for control of the oil regions. They've been willing to gamble with the future of mankind by keeping us tied too long to this carbon dioxide-spewing, carbon-fueled energy source.

If there are any of you still in denial about global warming, you need to ask yourself when the last time was you heard of a gathering of the body of world scientists refuting it?

For the love of life, close your eyes, bite your tongue or whatever you need to do, but don't let them up until we get a new batch of (hopefully responsible) leaders.

Mike Bartley , Fort Myers Beach