The Question
Eternal
Tuckerfan said:As for the idea that "people should just do the right thing" and vote the idiots out, I'll just point out that if people always did the right thing, we'd have no need for government to begin with.
Here's where that falls apart: We have (at least in theory) a government "of, by, and for the people." Which means that if people don't do the right thing, government doesn't, either. Except that government has machine guns, grenade launchers, and tanks to do the Wrong Thing with. I'm gonna hazard a wild-ass guess that you think the rest of us shouldn't.
But there's no distinction to be drawn that justifies that they should have those things and we should not.