Success Is Bad

Failure is not a good thing in politics but neither is success. Our political system is dominated by two parties which can no longer compromise on anything because the differences between them have become too vast. I would say, you can not compromise with those leading you to enslavement while those guilty of such would say they can not compromise with those refusing to allow them to do just that. So compromise is no longer possible and when one party obtains majority power it either forces its will upon everyone or nothing gets done. Anytime the state does anything it makes the citizenry, even those that supported whatever the cause, outraged. This is simply because the state is incapable of doing anything right. So, the citizenry grows weary of those in power, kicks them out, and puts the other guys back in power. This means whatever one group has done gets undone and those who made adjustments based on one set of rules now must adjust to a new set of rules and have to do this over and over. This is the problem with government. It can do nothing right even when it does something right. People are best left to make their own decisions and any tinkering with the free market by the state always makes things worse, not better. The lesson that should be learned, but never is, should be, keep the state as small as possible and deny it the authority to make others, including businesses, do things the way the state wants instead of doing things the way the citizen or business thinks best. cjpost