Politics and comics appear to run parallel to each other. As I have mentioned before, I read the comics first in my copy of the daily drivel. One of my favorites is "Dilbert" by Scott Adams. Like politics, the strip wouldn’t be funny if it weren’t so true.
Today, I borrow a line from the "pointy hair boss" when he spoke about the company's customers, "We don’t worry about the smart people, there are so few of them." Now, isn’t that just like politicians? They don’t worry about the people that actually have a grasp of what’s going on. There are just not many of them. Therefore, they can’t vote them out of office.
Abe Lincoln is attributed with saying, "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time." I wonder if he were alive today if he would want to retract that statement?
I still think everyone that is allowed to vote should have to pass a written exam on the issues and candidates. But, that would mean that only smart people could vote and they would be harder to fool.
We can’t have that.
PMO
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