But we know that isn't true. Look what happened the last time we all got exited and put the GOP into office across the country. Pundits were even asking whether we've become a one-party state. And then we had Rove declare that the GOP was now the "party of big government" and we watched a GOP dominated Congress pass pass pork-laden highway bills and ruinously expensive entitlement expansions that were signed gleefully into law by a GOP President.
Elections don't work anymore. We've proved that beyond all doubt. And it makes perfect sense that they don't work. After all, you "dance with them that brung ya" as they say in Texas, and "them that brung" the majority of voters who have figured out long ago that they can vote their ways into my wallet. And into your wallet.
I'm a reasonably successful professional. I busted by backside for everything I have. I absolutely reject the notion that people can legally rob me by the simple expedient of forming a 51% majority.
Look at the income tax rolls. A bare majority pay no income taxes at all. And that makes perfect sense in a democracy. A bare majority of 51% can vote its way out of having to pay and can externalize their costs onto the remaining 49%.
That's democracy, which is why I say to hell with democracy.
I mean, do you really suppose for a minute that a bare 51% majority of Americans, when given a choice between cutting their entitlements or increasing taxes on the top 49%, won't opt for the tax increase with alacrity? Or that a majority of that 49% minority won't ensure that the tax increase gets kicked further up the scale onto guys like me who are in the top few percentiles of earners?
Imagine an inverted pyramid and you have a pretty good picture of our society. It's inherently unstable. Which is a good thing, since I hate it. All we really have to do is to let it fall.
You're obviously a very smart guy, so I can't imagine that you actually believe that. Please explain why you retain faith in elections after the GOP leadership sold us out first chance they got in 2005?
One lost election, or one president too friendly to big government (largely out of a hopelessly misplaced longing to be liked), don't change history.
Nothing will make the left's economic policies actually work in the long run, and whenever they are in office, they are judged on their results, not their jive talk. They always fail that test, and they are failing it again as we speak.
Have a little more faith in the American people. They've done a heck of a lot in 235 years...