“I think we should allow Obama’s Toxic Stimulus, bank bailouts, idiotic energy policy and other FAR LEFT POLICY to run their course. These ideas will finally be exposed as the BS that we all knew it to be and then MAYBE Average Americans will see it, regain their sanity and put Conservatives in power, ala Reagan Revolution.”
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That seems like a fool’s errand to me. All those things have been exposed long ago for anyone capable of seeing and understanding, for those not capable there is no way to make them see.
We must remember that what is happening are the symptoms of a disease, not the disease itself. That disease was self-inflicted when we removed all barriers to voting. A representative government cannot work when the representatives are elected by the illiterate, by the lazy, by the willfully blind, by those too young to understand their own lack of knowledge. We used to require voters to be 21 at a time when 16 year olds were trusted to drive school buses loaded with children and 18 year olds could buy beer. Now, in this same state, we allow 18 year olds to vote but they must be 21 to buy beer and we wouldn’t dream of allowing a 16 year old behind the wheel of a bus. We have lowered the voting age at a time when the age of expected responsibility has been pushed higher by at least ten years. I clearly remember that people thought something was wrong with me because I did not have a wife and children by age 23, now I see hordes of 33 year olds depending on their parents to protect them from the world.
Without drastic reform in voter qualifications there is no hope for this nation. When candidates have to cater to the lowest common denominator to win election you will have the kind of government the lowest common denominator desires and that is what we have now.
Add to all this the MASSIVE voter fraud that happened in the 2008 election and will only get worse in 2010 and it becomes obvious that those who dream of victory at the ballot box are indulging in a pleasant fantasy. Victory at the ballot box requires voters who know what they are doing and candidates who are willing to return to time tested values and govern accordingly when elected. The candidates may exist but the voters are buried in a mass of fools whose votes count the same as the vote of the wisest and best among us.
I guess I had too much faith in the people today.
Normally, I am with you, but I still think people recognize failure if their lives are worse off than before. (Or if they have a perception of such, the media is very powerful, too powerful)