Morality & education

This post does not come from "objective" history, but from my own understanding and view of our history.

You know what our Founding Fathers had that we don't have? A majority of people that were more moral and more educated. I'm not claiming that all modern Americans are immoral; there are many people that are moral. I'm just saying that their level of morality was a bit higher. For example, they honored the Sabbath of the Lord (and I'm not just referring to the sporting event that occurred a few days ago). They also took sacred oaths more seriously. They also were more willing to take care of themselves (They didn't expect the Feds to send out agents to help them if their Montana homestead was struggling).

In terms of education, they read a lot more than we do (and read more sophisticated books). We watch a lot of things and think we've been educated--one of my friends said that in the communications world, much of what we see on TV is "infotainment" (we think we know something; it's entertaining to think one has learned something). The people back then actually read the Federalist Papers and Anti-federalist Papers and actually had debates about ideas.

Instead of just voting and hoping that our candidate become president, we should educate ourselves and others about liberty and be involved in our precincts. Liberty does not take a bunch of people voting every 2 to 4 years for it to be maintained. It takes constant vigilance.

I sure hope I haven't alienated all my friends with this "fiery" blog.

Obsessed

I've been thinking about something for a long time. I don't care what party or faction they belong to, many people are obsessed, that's right, obsessed about being seen by the rest of the world as legitimate. Some democrats work their hardest to make sure members of their own party get in positions of power (whether presidency, congress or bureaucracy). This obsession goes beyond whether the person will honestly keep their oath of office or will do what is right according to the Constitution or other law. For example, some Arizonans probably got really excited for John McCain when he got the Republican nomination in 2008. Or many Utahns get excited that Mitt Romney might get the current nomination. Or some Alaskans would love if Sarah Palin became a running-mate of one of the nominees. The obsession does not reflect necessarily that the ideas of the candidate are seen as good by the obsessed people, but that the obsessed are legitimized and bask in some shared glory.

Perhaps the people should care more about ideas, stateswomen and statesmen, and goodness than about winning or being validated or legitimized.