Let us put the forthcoming election into perspective. At least let us put it into perspective as the left-wing sees it.

If, way back in the 1960s, you had wanted to gain an insight into how the Left was going to break society down into a series of left-wing interest groups in the decades ahead, those groups always to be harvested as voting blocs for the increasingly left-wing Democrats, you would have done well to read Kenneth Minogue’s 1963 classic “The Liberal Mind.” There Minogue adumbrated the “suffering situation,” the Left’s fanciful assortment of constituencies from the very poor in the 1960s right up to today’s poor clods who stumble into the polling booth without a voter ID card or as we say a photo ID card. This poor clod may not have a pair of shoes on his or her feet or even a handbag, but what is crucial the Left tells us is that he or she cannot lay hands on a voter ID. So we, blessed with our voter ID cards, are expected to have compassion for him or her, and let the wretch vote anyway — possibly two or three times, possibly in polling booths throughout the city, possibly throughout the state.