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Let's Play a Game
Ok, pop quiz. What party is this guy talking about, and when did he write it:
During campaigns, they want our money, our support... but once they win, we're not needed. Even worse, they view us as a problem. Many of them forget that they have their tax-payer financed jobs and benefits because of the work so many of us did.
The honest answers are, "any active party", and "any time after 1787." I'm just about certain I can find comments like this any time in the modern era. It's likely the same sentiments will be found all the way back to the beginning, or shortly thereafter.
See, you guys just figured it was the Republicans who acted this way because, well, most of you wavered between "they're stupid" and "they're evil." Guess what, sparky? It's not Republicans, it's politicians, and it'll only get worse this time around because everyone seems to want so desperately to love this guy.
Original article is here.
Via Instapundit.
I think the real brilliance of the US government isn't that it's designed to select men of good moral standing to lead it, but that it's designed to work well for the people no matter how corrupt the politicians they vote for become.
Benjamin Franklin once said, "When the people realize they can vote themselves money, that will be the end of the Republic." Yet people have been doing this for nearly two centuries, without a collapse. I suspect, if the US does destroy itself, it will destroy itself trying to legally enforce moral standards, rather than becoming so lax it corrupts itself out of existence.
Posted by: Tatterdemalian on June 17, 2009 06:15 PM