America is a republic governed by elected representatives.\u00a0 The will of the people is expressed at the point in time those representatives are changed out for new ones.\u00a0 The will of the people is the engine of an orderly election.\u00a0 In America, an election is the only functional expression of the will of the people.\u00a0 It is not an expression subject to interpretation by anyone, especially those standing for, or succeeding in, an election.\u00a0 It’s simply a matter of electoral mathematics.<\/p>\n
Marx’s Communist Manifesto, first published in 1848, took several decades, a civil war, and a couple of economic depressions, to fully gestate into organized political action in America.\u00a0 It took the form of socialist progressivism late in the 19th century, and like the drunk at the party who just won’t go home, it’s been with us ever since.\u00a0 The Left, who subscribe to variations on Marx’s themes, don’t limit or recognize the role of the will of the people in America as outlined in the Constitution.\u00a0 For them, the will of the people constantly evolves.\u00a0 For them, the role of leadership is to enunciate this moving target, each day if need be, and rule on policies in accord with their anointed divinations.<\/p>\n
This point is worth restating.\u00a0 For the right, the will of the people is an election.\u00a0 For the left, the will of the people is a mythology.<\/p>\n
To our great collective misfortune, governance based in Marxism failed miserably wherever it was tried.\u00a0 It directly led to the deaths of 100’s of millions of citizens, innocent people put to death through war, famine, and persecution by progressive states acting under the authority of the will of the people.<\/p>\n
![thinks he can ‘advocate for’<\/a> the will of the people here.\u00a0 The first problem is that by definition, a minority candidate cannot represent the will of the majority unless he succeeds in defrauding the majority.\u00a0 Moreover, beyond the scope of a specific election, the will of the people cannot be abstractly known or advocated<\/em>, by anyone.\u00a0 Anyone who advocates for the will of the people is, in reality, advocating for their own subjective concept of the will of the people – for their myth.\u00a0 Elbert County voters should not reward this delusional approach since, as history has shown, this path leads to extremely negative outcomes.<\/p>\nTo be sure, it’s a free country and commissioner candidates can advocate for whatever they want.\u00a0 As voters, we must decipher the candidates’ well known self interests and their myths about the will of the people.\u00a0 Those candidates who sell myths about the will of the people that happen to confirm their own self interests should come under the most scrutiny.<\/p>\nAnd elected commissioners should be guided first by the law, and secondly by factual assessments grounded in objective circumstances.\u00a0 Delusions and myths about the will of the people are a very poor substitute for good governance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"America is a republic governed by elected representatives.\u00a0 The will of the people is expressed at the point in time those representatives are changed out for new ones.\u00a0 The will of the people is the engine of an orderly election.\u00a0 In America, an election is the only functional expression of the will of the people.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-989","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-politics","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/change.jpg\"){kind=link}