Reply #104: Please Forgive My Attempt At Humor, Ma'am

[The Magistrate]

I have had a trying week, and do not always judge what will amuse others, as well as myself, correctly. Contempt was not in my mind at all.

But the point behind my jest does remain. It really does seem hard to connect in any meaningful fashion the D.L.C. with the decades long decline in Union economic and political power in the United States, most of which took place long before that organization was founded. Invocation of it in that connection seems to suggest a "one size fits all" approach to issues that is often not helpful in analyzng serious problems.