Popularity is not the test of what is righteous or true. Despite all the reporting on the chaos on the southern border from the conservative media, a recent Fox News poll reported that only 8% of Americans are concerned about this law breaking. Go figure! There was a time when the popular opinion of we earthlings was that the world was flat. Adolf Hitler became a popular tyrant in Germany. The popular opinion in some quarters is that our world will destroy itself by burning fossil fuels. In all these cases or opinions, the people have been or are wrong. How come?
The ugly truth is
that the people have to be lead or herded.
The bait on the hook of leadership is, as it has always been, the
promise. The leader says to the people,
do this or do that, give up a little bit of freedom, and we will give you thus
and so, whatever is supposedly most needed at the moment. To make an obviously unwise choice digestible
by the people, chaos on the streets is mandatory. The uncertainty of the circumstance will sway
the people to give up their own self-interest because the people are routinely
wrong and easily bullied. Some would say
that the people are generally cowards.
One
question, is this not what’s happening in real time in America?
G. Goslaw
Landers, CA
