Can You Hear Me Now?
These days, most everyone owns a smart phone. It does so much more than a simple phone call. Few people understand how the cell phones work. I don’t mean understanding the features. I mean how the phone really works; the multiple radios in the phone, the different modulations used to encode the information, the RF power and how it transmits the information, and how it all comes together to enable the communication we take for granted. We don’t care how it works—we just want it to work.
For the most part, we treat the government like our cell phone—we just want it to work. We expect fresh, clean water in our homes, energy to heat our homes and cook our food, garbage service to take care of our trash, we want the potholes filled in the roads, we want protection from the criminals that would steal our stuff—we don’t care how the government works, we just want it to work.
The very best design teams use input from potential users to create a product that would best meet their needs. Some design teams design what they want, believing they know better than the customer, then try to force people into buying their product. This is the basic difference between good and bad government—one serves the good of the people by involving them, working to serve the people, the other, believing themselves superior and knowing what is best, works to gaing compliance of the people.
Our Constitutional Republic was designed to enable the citizens to input their ideas and opinions into the system of government, for the common good. It applies the laws with equality, even giving voice to those considered to be incompetent by the elite. Do you feel like your opinion is heard in our government? If you don’t, then it is not working as it was designed.
For many years now, we have been led to believe we must delegate important decisions to the experts. Government must be left to the experts. And healthcare must be entrusted to the experts, along with education, because the experts come from the universities. And that is what the science has taught us. And the media experts will affirm the competency of the experts—because 9 out of 10, experts say… It’s even in the commercials.
Many years ago we quit teaching our children how the government was designed to work. Is it any wonder, with all of the “experts” teaching in our schools? If we are to progress in continual improvement, we will return to the system of government in which everyone gets a voice and is respected as an equal human being, treated with dignity and respect. A system of elites will always discriminate against the common. They simply can’t help themselves. Can you hear me now?