Too much Idiocy in this column to respond to. Just another person who thinks emotional feelings constitute rational thought.

In a Democracy the elite intellectuals think the majority of the people are too dumb to know what's good for them but smart enough to evaluate and vote for the best intellectual. Throughout history the majority has been wrong a vast majority of the time.

Edit The dilemma of: voting someone into power who doesn't really want the power, won't become infatuated with it when they get it, and will work diligently away to eliminate most of it

The dilemma of: voting someone into power who doesn't really want the power, won't become infatuated when they get it, and will work diligently away to eliminate most of it.

....If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction cannot lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers." Calvin Coolidge

"It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning cannot be applied to this great charter. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. ....

"Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process. Moreover, even when the destructive effects of their work become patently clear, and they are asked to carry out actions incompatible with fundamental standards of morality, relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority." — Stanley Milgram (Obedience to Authority)

"The horrendous evils in the world are not carried out by tyrants but by millions of normally good people 'just doing their job' ". Hitler did nothing except make speeches and give orders. Everything he did was "legal".

#22 is not Stossel's. He is quoting Frederic Bastiat's parable of the broken window from his 1850 essay "That Which Is Seen And That Which Is Unseen".

LIKE!! From Newspeak dictionary: blackwhite- The ability to accept whatever "truth" the party puts out, no matter how absurd it may be. Orwell described it as "...loyal willingness to say black is white when party discipline demands this. It also means the ability to believe that black is white, and more, to know black is white, and forget that one has ever believed the contrary."

If the government said we get to vote on a bill to forgive student loans but you have to put your application in before the vote, believe me I would be putting in my application even though I would vote against the bill. If the government insists on redistributing my income, I'm going to try my best to get it back.