Like everyone else, I’ve been reading about the abysmal prospects for our country after the presidential debate, and there’s one recurring theme: the problem is the candidates. This is simple and convenient, but I think it is wrong. One guy is clearly incompetent and the other guy is a jerk, but in any republic or democracy, the candidates reflect things about who we are as a nation.
You have to ask yourself how, in a population of over 300 million people, these two guys are the best we can do. Of course, the easy conclusion is that we have been beguiled by the system or the parties or the candidates. However, in a free society, the beauty and danger is that our government is indirectly and directly driven by us, the people. Our constitution starts with these three words: We the people. This idea was derived from the fact that our nation gets its power from the people, not from sovereign rulers or Congress. This is the foundation that our constitution and country are built upon, but currently, we, as responsible Americans, aren’t using our power when it counts the most.
