On Politics

The fact is that all forms of authority are based on knowledge and political authority is no exception.  But in the present system political authority is granted to any warm body without regard to their the actual state of knowledge.  As a result some warm bodies have traded their votes for a material object such as a thinket or a wad of cash.  Or worse they've traded their votes for the warm and fuzzy feeling of having been compassionate.  The result is the present state of our nation.  Those who lack knowledge or simple concern for consequences shouldn't have authority over another person, let alone the fate of a nation.