There is a serious
problem of ineffective education in inner city schools due to
fearful and unenthusiastic teachers, poorly motivated students
lacking discipline, inflation of grades without adequate
standards for promotion and graduation and admission based on
factors other than merit. This leads to graduates without skills
or knowledge and permanently inculcates mediocrity and nepotism
as a basis for rewards.
It is perfectly understandable that undeserving candidates may
be elected to high office due to slick marketing to an
unintelligent, ignorant and emotionally manipulable electorate.
That is the drawback of a democracy in its oath to equality even
though it is mostly lip service and bombastic proclamation and
promise without practice, like the vow of chastity of many a
male Catholic cleric.
The unfortunate consequence of this unintended consequence is
what I call the Roman Hruska syndrome. He was a mid-western
senator who championed the appointment of a Supreme Court judge
by touting his mediocrity of legal talent. His argument was that
the majority of the populace is at best mediocre, so why
shouldn’t we pack the Supreme Court with someone sharing the
talents, intellect and ability of the majority. Even Madison who
loathed democracy and was mortally scared of the tyranny of the
majority of the uncouth and unclean masses, made only a minimal
concession to popular whim in the rapid turnover House of
Representatives. He left the more important aspects of power in
the longer tenure and experience of the Senators and the veto
wielding pseudo-kingly position of the presidency, both
thoroughly insulated from the changing gusts of popular madness.
Only the state legislators and the electoral college chose the
senators and president respectively.
Thus an undeserving candidate who gained admission to
educational institutions on the basis of affirmative action of
alumni preference and was railroaded through to be granted
graduation by inflation of grades without proper merit or
education by inner city schools located in New Haven and Boston,
is unlikely to interested in public welfare and betterment and
very likely to bypass merit and ability in his appointments to
federal executive jobs or the Supreme Court. The FEMA disaster
in New Orleans, the Miers candidacy for the Supreme Court and
the debacle in Iraq stand out as glaring examples of the
national disaster that can ensue when a single child is left
behind. For the want of a horseshoe, a horse was lost. For the
want of a horse, a rider was lost. For the want of a rider, the
battle was lost and thus a nation was lost. A single child left
behind can destroy a nation.
The other moral to be learnt is that a democracy allows
incompetent idiots to be elected to supremely important
positions and thus for purposes of checks and balances, it is
imperative that unelected appointments be thoroughly vetted and
conferred on the best, brightest and most able and not to the
level of morons constituting the elected candidates who may be
the alter egos of the electorate. This is what John Roberts
proved in his hearings and cross examination by the Senate.
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