Eighty-one percent of Americans say the country is on the "wrong track." What do you think?

To those who don't understand government

Submitted on April 6th, 2008 by Anonymous

QUOTE: "What we need is leadership, not representation of the lowest common denominator masses. That is, so called leaders who follow the polls and change their tactics to follow popular opinion, rather than a leader who follows principles, popular or not."

The brutal error at the heart of this argument is that we need a LEADER. Government is an instrument OF the people FOR the people and it is for the people themselves to lead the government. We do not need a leader as is suggested by this poster, but rather a REPRESENTATIVE who follows that which the people determine to be right.

This is called democracy. If our top elected officials do anything other than follow the will of the people it falls under another name: Tyranny.

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