Sheldon Richman on the Good News and Bad in Election 2014

The 2014 midterm election delivered both
good news and bad. The good news is that the losers lost. The bad
news is that the winners won. Despite what the voters may think,
however, this isn’t really about personality and character. It’s
about the limits of human nature. No one is
qualified to govern us considering how “govern” is defined today.
The national, state, and local governments attempt to manage all
aspects of our lives. In various ways, they undertake to “get
the economy moving” and keep it “humming.” On top of that, the
national government maintains a global empire in the service of
which the national-security apparatus presumes to manage foreign
societies. Even if doing these things were morally proper, which it
assuredly is not, writes Sheldon Richman, it would be beyond the
capability of human beings.

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