Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Intelligent Government, An Oxymoron? Part 1


As the father of two, and a concerned US citizen., I feel compelled to submit to the cyber world some fine ideas for getting a brain installed into our government. I'd say "back" into their head, but that would imply that at one point it DID have a brain. I suspect that has never been true. If you're a student of history you'll know that governments are never smart, and usually very stupid. The real question is to what degree are they stupid? Are they monstrously stupid like the Nazis of WWII or, simply too dim witted to know how dumb they are as in our current congress? But what about past governments here in the US? Have there not been smart governments in our history?

Uh, well let's take a look. In the Civil War the Union should have beaten the Confederacy in months, but they managed to draw that out into a bloody, gruesome, fiasco complete with idiotic military strategy. Dimwitted generals that seemed unaware of basic physics; marching thousands of soldiers out into the middle of a field with modern guns aimed at them will result in thousands of men being blown into millions of body parts.

Our famous forefathers are revered as if they never did anything wrong, but investigation reveals much petty quarreling and our first government barely had the power to rule at all. Not until the constitution was written was there a modicum of intelligence. The constitutional government under President Washington was rife with bickering and teetered on collapse many times. Thanks to his unusual intelligence, leadership and fortitude the republic moved forward. WE WERE VERY LUCKY !! Washington was an intelligent and effective leader but he has been the exception in our history. The last few years has seen hyper stupidity in government like we have never seen. This is what happens when the people no longer pay attention or are no longer able to understand what their government is doing and therefor stop trying to make a difference.


Our government is ineffective and "stupid" because the people are not informed and the people don't really care. Not all, but the majority don't see the connection between Washington, DC and their lives. Younger adults today especially seem uninformed and ambivalent. This is the consequence, what we see today.... a leadership that is little more than a group of very expensive whores up for sale to the highest bidder, and their political campaigns are nothing more than a list of "promises' that are easily made but never accomplished.