Richard Fernandez of PJMedia on why we need to worry when our presidents and their appointees all come from Harvard and other “elite” institutions. They are poster children for term limits. Too smart for our good.
“America was founded on the notion that most politicians can only be expected to be ornery, low-down, crooks. Nobody in those days was fool enough to believe they could be Light-workers, Messiahs and create a world without guns. Thus in the Founder’s view the only way to guard against rogues was to ensure that government remained as small as possible relative to its essential jobs; to change those in office frequently and often, like we change underwear.
“The Founders saw roguery as the byproduct of high office. And so they wrote a constitution — you know, the document more than a hundred years old that nobody smart reads any more — to keep the weeds down. For they knew better than our modern enlighteneds that any politician sufficiently powerful to disarm the people is sufficiently powerful to sell missiles bought from Russia to Muslim rebels in Mindanao.
“Unless one remembers this there is no defense against crooks in high places.”
Which is why we need term limits and, to my mind, no more two-term presidents.
Via Instapundit.
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