When a millage is voted down as the Saugatuck school millage was on the basis of school administration mishandling money, is it really democracy to propose the millage over and over until it passes? There shouldn't be anything as a 'routine election result' in this country...it's bad for democracy and horribly for our government.
Routine elections breed complacency with problems and an opposition to new ideas. This comfort of position is the singular reason it took 25 years to add a new lane to the runway at the Atlanta airport...and why it's necessary to shut down the bureaucracy in Michigan to effect change. This is not a sustainable path we are on...it is our responsibility as citizens and conservatives to break the machine...
Do it...teach the kids fancying themselves administrators in Saugatuck a lesson and vote no. Speaking as a former student in Hamilton, it would be great for the Saugatuck imports to attend the state's finest high school.
Posts
1 comment:
Let’s clear up a common misconception right now; America was never intended to be a democracy. Democracy is majority rule, regardless of whether the majority is right or wrong, which is the same thing as mob rule. No, the Founding Fathers wisely set America up as a republic, which is the rule of law through elected representation.
Yes, our election process in democratic by nature and design, but the republic is preserved (or is supposed to be, anyway) by not permitting anything on the ballot that isn't lawfully supposed to be there. See, the novel thing about America is that we’re a nation with a government that is expected to answer to the people.
Post a Comment