Question?
Why do small government conservatives, you know, the liberty loving limited government types support the whole system that surrounds owning and operating a motor vehicle? I can only assume that voters support it because we have the government we want right? I know that many Freepers support the system because of the many many arguments surrounding the issues of seat belt laws, helmet laws, checkpoints etc.
So how can you be a freedom loving, small government conservative on the one hand, and support the greatest form of tyranny that can be experienced by an American; Owning and operating a motor vehicle?
In this country, instead of training people to be competent drivers, we build a system of regulations and citations that are geared for incompetent boobs who cannot tie their own shoe laces without a youtube how-to video.
Oh it reminds me of down town city parking cabals. Where you create an impossible parking situation, then hand out citations by the handful to violators. Same thing here. We don’t want the roads filled with competent self sufficient drivers. Rather, we prefer the roads filled with barely competent drivers, saddled with thousands of regulations designed to take the place of competent operation of a motor vehicle. Drivers are trained to pass a written test (it’s all about complying with rules) but drivers are never trained how to operate the vehicle when things go wrong. Nobody is trained by driving 90 mph across stop sticks and safely bringing the vehicle to a stop without rolling it. Pilots on the other hand are put through training where the aircraft is put into an odd attitude and failure configuration, then expected to recover. American drivers are competent on clear sunny days, dry pavement, fully inflated tires and no more than 70 mph, as long as they don’t really have to steer.
So why do we choose tyranny and control over self sufficiency and competence? I have no idea. I guess it’s just the American way. The Fing village won’t work unless everybody is forced to rely on big brother to fix what we are too willfully incompetent to avoid.
But lets face it. Traffic regs are just a fun and exciting way to make a mockery of the 4th amendment, and employ otherwise unemployable law school graduates masquerading as Da’s and judges anyway.
That didn’t make much sense.
We did not need class time to figure out how to put a 'raincoat' on a pickle.
Now, kids are 'educated' in things they'd likely have figured out for themselves doing what comes naturally, as well as a host of deviant behaviours, (which they'd have figured out if they'd been so inclined--or not), but they can't drive a stick shift...
The 'pickles' still aren't getting covered, by the teenage birth rate.
They (small .gov luving conservatives) do it because they are hypocrites...
When I got my license it was six weeks of school and nine hours of driving instruction. Long time ago. Nothing the driving instructor taught me was new. My father had fully prepared me under my permit.
THAT is the real problem. Parents of each succeeding generation pass on less and less of what is the right way to do things - they have been led to believe someone from the govt. will fill the gaps.