Doug Pensinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> What is important is that a leader take responsibility for his
> administration. It is important that I am able to distinguish between
> someone that has done a good job and someone that hasn't when I cast my
> vote.
>
> So in that case, yea, blame is pretty important.
Sorry, I blame myself. I was not clear. I meant to ask, is it helpful to blame
politicians for not having solutions to difficult problems?
My impression is that this list has an ongoing debate between religous people,
with faith in their gods, and government people, with faith in their
politicians.
Personally, I put my faith in evolution, both biological and economical. Humans
are fallible, and politicians are human. Putting greater responsibility (power,
expectations, etc.) in the hands of politicians means that their failures will
be
greater disasters. Better to keep government as small as possible, not put our
politicians on a pedestal, and instead rely on ourselves and competition of
ideas
in a marketplace to determine solutions to problems. If the "gene-pool" of
ideas
is sufficiently diverse, then natural-selection in a free-market will find
better
solutions to problems than millions of politicians ever could. If the gene-pool
is
not sufficiently diverse, then perhaps there is a role for government to
encourage
greater vitality and diversity through policy. But any approach that relies on
politicians to design an efficient system is doomed to failure.
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