…and our self-appointed betters need figure out that we’re on to them before things get ugly.
Go read the whole thing. Nice to know that some in the legacy media are starting to get it.
H/t to Car in at H2
February 19, 2010 by Blackiswhite, Imperial Consigliere
…and our self-appointed betters need figure out that we’re on to them before things get ugly.
Go read the whole thing. Nice to know that some in the legacy media are starting to get it.
H/t to Car in at H2
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Pretty much gets to the heart of the matter. Great find.
I would add invariably the “superior people” almost always have two additional fatal flaws:
(1) A humanist perception that the problem is always out there…
(2) A innate belief of themselves as being qualified as the measure of all things.
You can find out all you need to know about the people around you by saying this out loud:
“What’s wrong with this phrase: “We are the ones we’re waiting for!”?”
Or, like some people I know, you could just use it for target identification. That works, too.
Seems to me this misses the point of representative government where we elect people to make decisions on our behalf and if they do a bad job of it, we elect someone to replace them. There is an implicit acceptance that these people might have facts unavailable to us in their decision process …. for example a decision to go to war.
The average American did not vote to go to Iraq, We trusted our government to make that decision.
I find charges of elitism tend to get thrown around only when someone smarter than you actually is in charge. LOL
I find charges of elitism tend to get thrown around only when someone smarter than you actually is in charge. LOL
There hasn’t been someone “smarter than me in charge” since John Quincy Adams sat in the Oval Office.
Seems to me this misses the point of representative government where we elect people to make decisions on our behalf and if they do a bad job of it, we elect someone to replace them.
No. We elect people to represent our interests, not to make decisions on our behalf…and even they know it. That’s why they rely so deeply on those windvanes we call polls. If they were there simply to make decisions on our behalf, they wouldn’t care.
The average American did not vote to go to Iraq, We trusted our government to make that decision.
I saved this for last, because it reflects a special degree of ignorance.
Once again, you try to use a power specifically granted to Congress as cover for the usurpation of one that was not. Once again, I refer to that document that you don’t like to read, The Constitution.
Well over at my place I accused you of arrogance on religious grounds but you’ve put the cherry on the sundae with the JQ Adams comment. I’m sure somewhere up there, JQ is flattered that you consider him smarter than you. 🙂
I think you’re splitting hairs. Making a decision on our behalf and representing our interests are hopefully one and the same. Why would we allow anyone to make a decision on our behalf that did not represent our interests? And yes, polls may point the way and elections, as I stated further, deliver the reward/punishment for not representing our interests.
You do love our Constitution and I can’t blame you. No where in what you quoted does it say that this power reserved for Congress should be exercised contrary to the will of the people. Declaration of war is like any other act of Congress, in that it is the will of representatives of the people. Sadly, in the case of Iraq, no formal declaration of war was made. How could it have been? Iraq did nothing to us to prompt our attack.
The average American did not vote to go to Iraq…
…only the above-average ones did.
Iraq did nothing to us to prompt our attack.
They didn’t have to. The grounds for invading Iraq were clearly laid out in the 2003 SotU, and they didn’t include Iraq “doing something to us.”