Another Day

I read a blog called zen habits....and one of the more recent posts was about how many times a week the creator of the blog should post. I am impressed it takes a great deal of bravery to ask the public what they want of you and your time... Alexander Hamilton said it best when he said "The masses are asses". That is really what I want to talk about today. Democracy is a great thing, but its failing isn't in the process. I wish it were, cause the process is easy to change. It fails because of the people who choose it for their form of government. It is easier to vote in the short term and take your pleasure where it is but hard...very hard to look at the long term ramifications of your decisions. Looking at Social Security is a prime example. I doubt I will ever collect on it....and most people will within 4-6 years get back all the money they put into it as well. Yet, I have yet to see the man elected who would push through a bill to dissolve it....to many people care about....not enough to vote for you if you want to leave it unchanged but enough to vote against you if you say kill it.
Robert A. Heinlein once said that that the moment the people learned they could vote themselves bread and circuses that Rome fell... I fear that America is heading down that dark road as well...I just wish we could learn to stop our train and learn from our history....but I find learning from the past is a thing we seem to fail at doing. To often people don't know the past or think that the scenery or technology makes things different....look at the deeper themes and be very worried.

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