Simply because the common man or the street rapper thinks so doesn’t mean it is necessarily what is best for all.
I do not find it difficult to fathom, rather to the contrary I have come to expect it, and probably The Founding Fathers did as well when they set this nation up as a Democratic Republic rather than a Democracy where the people decide everything.
Intelligent people have always been persecuted. The masses have NEVER shared the view of the intelligensia, but that point of view was not deliberately celebrated as it is now.
That said, just because they rejected Kerry’s platform doesn’t mean they get to decide the criteria for the rest of us as to what constitutes an American. THAT’s what worries me. Remember “The Lord High Protector Oliver Cromwell.”
On 11/5/04 8:55 AM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
In a message dated 11/4/2004 10:43:36 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
No matter how you try to twist the statistics, and might I say without humor, the ordinary people of America soundly repudiated you blues.This is at the core of the point I've been making. The masses, as it were, do not share the vision of the self-anointed.
There's just been a book (I didn't buy it when I first read the review and now can't remember the title or author -- can someone help, here?) that discussed the idea of the collective wisdom of the populace essentially universally trumping the pronouncements of the people who think they have superior credentials -- intellectually and morally. Of course, the latter find this impossible to fathom.
Nothing made this as clear to me as the defeat of the gay marriage propositions in all 11 states where it was on the ballot. It would be encouraging if the people who advocated this position really examined why it proved to be unacceptable to the majority of the voters -- rather than just excused their own prejudices by attributing it to homophobia or to that sinister conspiracy of right-wing evangelical Christians.
Al Krigman
(Left of Ivan Groznyj)
