Musings on Politics: I'm too important for that.

I could be very wrong in my understanding, but it is my belief that the reason for today's political structure is that not enough people take an interest in the way things are run. It is not even so much that the wrong people are involved, because everyone has the capacity for sin and everyone can be corrupted. No, it is not the wrong type of people that are involved in politics, it is simply that not enough people take an interest in the way their lives are being run.

In fact, the entire system of American government is set up so that people can have as little or as much to do with politics as they want, while getting on with their lives. The problem is, it also encourages people to not be involved. Thus, when a decision is being made, otherwise intelligent people will make the unintelligent decision to let someone else decide for them.

Our nation is decaying, exactly because people are not paying attention. They don't respond to polls, they don't vote, and they don't get involved with the very decisions that are shaping their lives, until it is almost too late to do anything about it. By then, they are desensitized to the problem, and are just happy to have it back up a bit to what they consider a reasonable level, that is a level where it is below their notice. It is my belief that the ones most likely to do this are also those who consider themselves to be the most intelligent. Mind you, not necessarily the most intelligent, but those who consider themselves to be the most intelligent. After all, they are the most likely to believe that they are above the petty politics of the common man. They are the most likely to be oppressed by the dictates of the common man, and more importantly, those who are able to manipulate the common man for their own ends.

The belief that one need not get involved in politics because one is dedicated to medicine or science is a falsehood. If one does not get involved in politics, the decisions will be made without one's input. No one wins when intelligent people ignore what is going on so that small-minded people can throw ropes of political expediency around them, and restrict and control how they conduct their lives.