I like to think that this dreadful election season will be all over but for the shouting, but I have lived long enough to know that won’t be the case.

So someone will win tomorrow and either way it’ll be ugly.

I firmly believe that our country is losing its way - the Founders would be horrified to see where we are today, imho.

That said, I look forward to casting my ballot tomorrow morning and I will be watching the coverage on TV in the evening.

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1. “[T]he Founders would be horrified to see where we are today, imho.”

   I know, with the abolition of slavery and the letting women and non-landed men vote and everything. The horror!

   Posted by Pisco Sours  on  11/03/08  at  03:33 PM

2. Point is, any argument with “the Founders” in it is either silly and unserious on its face, or else is mere jargon standing for something you really don’t want to write in public.

   Posted by Pisco Sours  on  11/03/08  at  03:39 PM

3. Pisco Sours, I disagree. True, the original state of affairs with regard to slavery and sufferage for both non-landed and women has changed. However, the founding fathers had a sense of how government should work. They established a clear set of checks and balances to keep any one branch from becoming dominant. They all originally agreed that government should impact citizens only minimally. Even the Federalists, who favored a stronger central government, didn’t envision a government that intrudes into education, religion (barring school prayers, for example), massive handouts either as welfare or “tax cuts” for folks who don’t pay taxes or enforcement of “politically correct” speech.

   Nothing hidden, nothing I’m not willing to write in public. Jefferson and Madison didn’t believe in a strong central government, preferring to allow individual states to make decision affecting their citizens. Hamilton and the Federalists wanted a strong central government and as a consequence, diminished states rights. We’re still arguing over that issue, even after the Civil War strongly slanted the government to the Federalists’ point of view.

   The danger in a strong central government, of course, is that the national majority can override the local majority, imposing a national solution that the local population may or may not want or need. Our Founders didn’t really want that strong a central government, hence the balance against the government of local militia and the right to bear arms.

   Posted by  on  11/04/08  at  09:16 AM

4. What Dad said.

   Posted by jen  on  11/04/08  at  11:14 AM

5. VERY well said, Jen’s Dad!

   Posted by Lynellen  on  11/04/08  at  01:42 PM

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