We have created in America a permanent political class that has powerful incentives to remain in office and grow government. Protected from accountability by gerrymandered districts and financial support from special interests, its members at times actually defy their constituents, as they did on the illegal immigration issue in 2007 and the mortgage bailout bill in 2008. It's time to hold our politicians to account.
Friday, August 20, 2010
Thomas Sowell: The dull and stupid can't do much; "For creating a truly monumental disaster, you need people with high IQs"
...(Thomas) Sowell does not view Obama so much as a cause of America's decline as the embodiment of trends set in motion decades ago. One such trend is the gradual relinquishing to an elite of intellectuals the liberty that rightly belongs with individuals. These elites -- comprised of politicians, academic, journalists and judges -- are infected with the belief that they are qualified to make decisions for the rest of us. Sowell warns of the disaster that they can do: "There is usually only a limited amount of damage that can be done by dull or stupid people. For creating a truly monumental disaster, you need people with high IQs."
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