Are People Too Stupid to Govern Themselves?

I have never written about politics, but when you feel like you should, you probably should. Though I am registered as a republican, I have always voted for the person I felt was right for the job. I feel it is a travesty we are normally stuck with choosing one of the two major parties.  

You know, the most troubling argument in our national life these days isn’t about economics, or policy at all. It’s about us, as a free people. From a world view, the contention is that we Americans just can’t cut it anymore. Can this be true? Are people too stupid to govern themselves?

Our politicians tell us that we just can’t handle ourselves in this intricate, hazardous world without their kindly protection. Left to ourselves, we might pick the wrong health insurance, the wrong mortgage, the wrong school for our kids; unless they stop us, we might pick the wrong light bulb!

Some contend we Americans are no longer up to the job of self-government. We can’t do the simple math that proves the tremendous cost of today’s safety net programs, or all the government we now have. We always fall for the con job that says we can just plow ahead and someone else will pick up the tab. We will allow ourselves to be pitted one against the other, blaming our neighbor for troubles worldwide trends or our own government has caused.

2012 must be the year we prove the doubters wrong. This is the year we strike out fearlessly not merely to ward off national bankruptcy, but to say to a new generation that America is still the world’s foremost land of opportunity. At the polls speak for those who believe in the dignity and capacity of the individual citizen; who believe that government is meant to serve the people rather than supervise them; who trust Americans enough to tell them the plain truth about the fix we are in, and to lay before them a specific, credible program of change big enough to meet the emergency we are facing.

The record by the administration and congress is a joke. No American should stand for the things done to them. Does the current administration only rely on those who are too stupid not to vote for them?  Is the message one only stupid people will believe? And while there are too many of those, most Americans shouldn’t be fooled into thinking the country can stand another four years.