And yes, I did vote for him because the ruling elite in this country are just that, elite. They are becoming a threat to individual freedom to such a degree that the average citizen has to do something about it sooner rather than later least they turn us back into a pre-revolutionary state that was ruled by (English) Royalty.

That this is "only" a feeling of mine may or may not be a problem (those of you who know Objectivism know it is wrong to act on feelings without thinking about them, but...I have thought about it and this is what I think...) as I was saying this may be a problem and if it is I guess it will manifest itself in the kind of trouble Jesse V gets us into. But, be that as it may, compared to the two Royalty seeking opponents he ran against, Jesse's got a heroic soul and I can't not be for him and I wish him well. Since I have my own Web Site as outlet for my political frustrations I'm not too worried about the possibility of Jesse doing more harm than good. The only real harm he can do is to disillusion those who can't articulate their feelings as well as I can.

I watched the Republicans and Democrats spend the best part of a year in-fighting over the religious view of character: "their" view is that moral character is synonomous with sexual mores, which is to say: To the religious mind, moral = sexual behavior (how else do you explain the (alledged) fact that --per my University of Nortre Dame trained-in-Catholic-philosophy/epistemology friend who told me-- Catholics hold it to be true that "homosexuality" is worse than "murder"!?!?!?!?).

The fact that I am disappointed in my government (I'm not that disappointed in my ex-religion, at least "they" are consistent enough so that you can figure them out) in that I thought we'd have colonies on the moon by now and possibly even Mars is not really relevant in its particulars but it is in its generality: everybody in this country has come to think of the government as the provider of all our wants...and when I say everybody I mean, even me. I am embarrassed, but I will vote for Jesse V. or anybody else who carries the promise of making our government be the one and only thing it should be: PROTECTOR of the individuals right to his or her own life.

Scratch pad thinking...

HYPOTHESIS NUMBERED ....Ho8:

Ho8: This country is in danger of being taken over by a ruling elite and if we don't do something about it sooner rather than later there will be no later in which to do something about it.

The average citizen, me included, does not have the political self-confidence to counter those who argue "we" don't know what we are doing and we'd better let those who do, do it and take care of us naieve (don't know how to spell) citizens. That this kind of argument works is a backhanded complement to the average American: it shows he still respects the idea that knowledge is some-thing and it comes about by work and effort. And it also works because we don't want to be accused of having a Russian mentality, that is, of having a view of the world that pits the "proletariat/worker/blue collar" people against the "bourgeois/ruler elites/intellengentia" because we are not that kind of a people. The Russians are that way, we aren't. So how does one not succuum to such a wrong subdivision of the world of people?

I don't know.

It is more than "rich" against "poor", though this is part of the "wool".

Actually, it has to be a form of racism which is a form of collectivism which is a form of attempting to maintain a contradiction in a universe that does not allow them.*

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