So... how about that Tea Party?

[Mr Khan]

Kasz216 said:

Mr Khan said:

makingmusic476 said:

lostintheodyssey said:

 

All you have to do is look at history most people don't seem to act right unless they have the federal government breathing down their neck. 

How can you expect a government elected by and consisting of the people to be morally superior to the general public?  If a majority of the people don't want to act this way, then why are they electing officials that will force them to act this way?

Because that's the nature of a Republic. We have better people than us making our choices for us, and that while the People are responsible enough to choose who should be making those choices, we are not responsible enough to make those choices ourselves. Which i agree with, largely. People can be scarily stupid, and while there needs to be a popular voice in government, true populism never really ended up well.

That isn't the nature of a Republic though.  Republic's exist because direct democracies are slow and not everbody has time to be informed on every issue.

Politicians are in no way better people... in a lot of ways they are worse people then the average person.  They're just needed.  Though less and less needed do to things like the internet and the spreading of books and of education as people find themselves more and more well informed on issues.

That definitely came out wrong on my part, when i read it back. The gist of it stays the same, though. Certainly they are not *better* people, no man-gods or supermen, but i'm of the opinion that we elect people to do for us, not to reflect us (thus i feel that Scott Brown has been perfectly within his mandate to vote the way he has, while others feel that he has betrayed a trust by not voting the way the voters elected him to vote).

Politicians are bound by a higher code of conduct to a certain point. They can't enact some of the highly irresponsible ideas that their constituents adhere to.