Most of America is politically and economically ignorant. Even I myself don’t claim to be well-informed on many important matters, yet I frequently hear things said by both Democrats and Republicans that are just plain stupid. There is just no other way to describe it. Anyone who thinks they can take out $100k worth of loans without having to face the consequences is a moron. Anyone who thinks a complete collapse of the world financial system and the risk of total anarchy is an acceptable risk in order to stick it to a few fatcats (ie, anyone who thinks we should not have bailed out Wall Street) is a nutjob. I think that if someone’s ignoring reality and/or staggering evidence yet loudly proclaiming some random talking point they read in a pamphlet, they’re well on their way to idiocy.

I’m curious though, we were having quite a polite discourse through email and you never replied back to me.

Do you get that I’m not arguing in favor of the left or the right? It’s about correctness.

I think there are honest people on both sides who sincerely believe they are right. I happen to personally believe that the founders were right when they feared the centralization of power in a federal government. That doesn’t mean that there aren’t important things to be done by government, but when you give as much power as we have given to Washington, there is great danger that in attempts to do good things, there will be great inefficiency, corruption, or worse. It’s clear that has happened. A government that provides all things necessarily has to have the power to take all things.