Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Absence of rational thinking

In a YouTube video, the man who carried a semi-automatic assault rifle outside yesterday's presidential event tells fellow demonstrators:
"We will forcefully resist people imposing their will on us through the strength of the majority with a vote."
And it's the same sort of thinking that screams loudest about the rights of the people.

Excuse me, but who are "the people," if not those who are empowered to decide on how our government is run -- by "the majority with a vote"?

It's the kind of immature thinking that says "if I don't get my way, then I'm being discriminated against," and therefore the government is the problem. What a difference it makes when you split off "the government" from "the people," ignoring that it's "government of the people, by the people, and for the people."

Ralph

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