When our political system is working at its best, considerable respect is given to minority opinion, not only in theory but in practice. Minority rights are understood to be at the foundation of a free society. In this context, then, it never makes sense to say what politicians are always saying, We have a mandate.
There is never a mandate. There is always a sizable group that disagrees with you and these folks must be honored. This is true even when minority opinions are ignorant and, well, weird. If these ignorant minorities grow, it's the fault of our educational system. And that's what bothers me most today, a growing body of citizenry embrace and flaunt and even are proud of ignorance.
Sarah Palin, the darling of this group at the moment, is demonstrably ignorant in many areas in which she insists on offering commentary. She is demonstrably stupid. And what is appalling, it not only doesn't seem to matter but is embraced by many as one of her greatest strengths.
To my parents' generation, giving their children an education was worth considerable sacrifice. And now we come to this: that education is considered elitist.
What planet is this?
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She has already made enough gaffes that her perception is going to seem limited, but I promote her because she has the good sense to value life and think that mankind does not have to resort to legalized abortion and over a million deaths a year to survive, which a good many liberals and so called intellectuals do not even have the sense to deplore and mostly because they fear to be thought out of step, and weird by their peers. That's always what support of choice has been about, staying popular, which strikes me as another kind of shallow thinking. I thought Palin gave a brilliant speech at the convention for a simple girl.
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