Right Wing Nut House.
So, Barack Obama has finally revealed himself as an elitist? This is news?
Not at all news to anybody listening and watching closely over these past (already too many and many more to come) months.
They (the Founders) saw man as born into mortal sin and therefore an imperfect being who couldn’t be trusted with too much power over others. Our balance of powers among the three branches of government is derived from this mindset.
The “mortal sin” part is a bit of an exaggeration. Balance of powers/checks & balances among branches of government were to prevent any single branch of the federal government from becoming too powerful. Separation of powers between the states and federal government (federalism) was spelled out to clearly delineate limits on the power of the federal government as a whole.
Neither remaining candidate for the Democrat nomination understands those concepts of checks on the power of the federal government.
Are liberals then the intellectual descendants of the Founding Fathers?
That the founding fathers were attuned to the pitfalls of pure or “direct” democracy in no manner shape or form equates to the shallow élitists of today. You’re right about them being driven by notions of control and micromanaging every aspect of human existence.
Both right and left have been known to denigrate the tens of millions of ordinary citizens who don’t read blogs, barely know the internet, and eschew the minutia of political debates in favor of following every twist and turn on American Idol.
Weren’t all 3 Prez candidates scheduled to be on American Idol ? Hell, McCain jokes around (pretty funny, actually) with David Letterman, and the next thing you know, Hillary’s yukking it on Jay Leno. Barack and Hillary have both been on The View, with the screaming meemies.
It’s rather a mish mash, entertainment & politics. (For the record, anybody who has appeared on The View has no business dissing the hoi polloi)
It is not only elitist but also delusional to believe that this great amorphous mass of citizens cares a whit about the daily goings on here in blogland or the internet.
You sure ’bout that ? Sounds a bit of an élitist assumption to me.
