Sean's Blog

In seeing all the coverage about the Massachusetts election tonight, something occurred to me. Our founding fathers, in their infinite wisdom, created the US as a representative democracy. I can remember sitting in middle school hearing that and thinking, why don’t we have a direct democracy, with the people truly running the country? It was later that I learned the answer to that question, in that all too many of us are simply incompetent, but our founders trusted us to at least know the difference between the smart ones, and the stupid ones.

But when you consider We The People let Dubya stay in the White House for eight years, and we let Teddy sit in his Senate seat until he died, you’ve got to wonder. Especially on nights like tonight. Color me cynical or color me transparent, I won’t look much different…