Plus ça change...
...plus cest la même chose. Ya think? I frequently bemoan the way that public "schools" (also known in my circle as "prisons for kids") are churning out an increasingly stupid product. But it's been going on for a long, long time. I don't have the source material behind this quote from an article by Jonah Goldberg, but I'm sure he does:
Yeh, and besides being blissfully unaware of critical facts about their own government or world affairs, "the people" are the expression of democracy's wisdom at the polls. One reason the Founders and Framers sought to limit the franchise was simply to eliminate as much of the "stupid vote" as possible. But pols today, of course, seem to want a stupid electorate. In fact, it's their primary protection against removal from power. |