1 December 2008

Allow me to recommend two books (ha, I not only have no viewers, but readers?  Oh my): The Myth of the Irrational Voter, by Bryan Caplan and Common Ground, by Cal Thomas and Bob Beckel.  Together they tell a story.

Thomas' and Beckel 's book makes a case for anti-partisanship, and a hope that it is on the way; Caplan's that the voter by and large is mostly ignorant anyway, so it doesn't much matter.  Add to that videos I have received recording voters who haven't a clue and it's worrysome.

I do attempt to stay at least nominally non-political (whether you believe it or not) but I have to say that the recent election is commentary on all the above.  The electorate, with not a clue, opted for an inexperienced and very naive  missionary , the emperor Ollahbamabongbong I, who blathered sweetness and light (ala Jack Kennedy), with awesome levels of cash from the radical left proved  (I am assuming) Thomas'/Bechel's theory that we are so opposed to parisanship we  swallowed it hook line an sinker.

The fact is, and this really is fact, that we, regardless of party, have been sliding more and more toward big government and patronism, if not populism, for decades, with less and less understanding for and more and more bias against free market economics.

What more can I say?  Bless you; you will need every bit of it, if the history of socialism is any indication.