Niagra Falls!!!
...step by step… inch by inch...
After several paragraphs deriding how stupid the citizens of this country are—and surprise! no mention of the NEA—noted male escort taste arbiter bon vivant and Kontempt Klown, Bill Maher, arrived at this gem:
And if you want to call me an elitist for this, I say thank you. Yes, I want decisions made by an elite group of people who know what they’re talking about. ...
Which is the way our founding fathers wanted it. James Madison wrote that “pure democracy” doesn’t work because “there is nothing to check… an obnoxious individual.” Then, in the margins, he doodled a picture of Joe the Plumber.
Suddenly the Democratic Party line is gonna morph into the “we have a Republic, here, and you who disagree with us and are therefore too obviously stupid to live [TSTL] oughta just Shut Up and let your superiors run every last aspect of your lives” line.
I will agree with him on one thing, though.
Until we admit that America can make a mistake, we can’t stop the next one.
Unraveling the steps in this Narrative is hard... Kinda like figuring out the who-done-it in a Nancy Drew novel.
“... Yes, I want decisions made by an elite group of people who know what they’re talking about. ... “
There’s a catch there. Jefferson, Hamilton, Adams, and the rest were “elite”. They were well-educated (far above the mob that’s in Congress now).
But the difference between today’s elite and the Founding Fathers is that the Founding Fathers actually did know what they were talking about. Unlike today’s.
Bill Buckley put it simply: “I’d rather be goevered by the first thousand names in the Boston phone book than by all the elites of Harvard and Yale”.
And yes, Mr knowitall Maher, Adams was right about a pure democracy.
Which is why they set us up as a Republic.
By the way, I remember hearing from the Pelosi crowd not too long ago about how they think the Electoral College is a bad thing because it’s not a “pure democracy”.
To quote Shakespeare, “What fools these liberals are.”
Posted by ZZMike on 08/10/09 at 09:10 AM
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