That nugget of wisdom from Ludwig von Mises came to mind when I read Anna Quindlen?s latest contribution to Newsweek, in which she shares her frustration that inarticulate voters are standing in the way of President Obama and his experts:
[A]t the moment the problem in Washington is us, not them, or at least how they try to figure us out. Good luck with that. One poll of former Obama supporters who abandoned the Democrats in Massachusetts showed that 41 percent of those who opposed the health-care plan weren’t sure exactly why. If elected officials are supposed to act based on the wisdom of ordinary people, they’re going to need ordinary people to be wiser than that.
Why can?t you dumb people just let us decide what?s good for you?
