Elections make little, if any, difference

Elections make little if any difference

Midterm elections approach. Change is in the air. Excited people join movements and talk about bringing the country back to its principles, getting America back on track and throwing the rascals out.

The elections will decide little or nothing. Spending will remain exuberantly profligate. And in two years, we will again hear about getting America back on track.

Voters should realize:

1. Power corrupts, and power also attracts the corruptible. Whoever we send to Washington this time will honor his constitutional oath no more than the last guy.

“The history of government management of money has, except for a few short happy periods, been one of incessant fraud and deception.” - Friedrich von Hayek, Nobel Laureate in economics, 1974

2. Most of us should not vote.

“Unless they can pass the same test that immigrants must pass to become citizens, people shouldn't be allowed to vote. The idea that there is some public benefit in ignoramuses pulling levers next to names on a ballot is one of the evil myths of postmodern America.” - Charley Reese, Orlando Sentinel columnist, Nov. 3, 1998

3. Corporations own America. We probably already have the best congressmen money can buy.

H.L. Mencken said it best: “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”

So, vote. It may be the last election before our leaders decide that another world war is needed to boost the economy.

Ed Dolan

Central City