WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS COUNTRY

You know what's wrong with this country? I think it's pretty simple. It's being managed by money. Yeah, that pretty much says it.

This is not a government of, by and for the people. The people are not governing this country. The marketplace is.

It seems to me that it should be the other way around. The government should run the marketplace; the marketplace should not be running the government. The government is supposed to be governing, isn't it? If it is not governing, then why is it not being completely irresponsible?

Now I gotta say something that sounds like a total contradiction. In a way,you see, I don't even believe in governments. I'm kinda partial to the survival-of-the-fittest thinking. I believe that you have a right to whatever you can get your hands on, or whatever you are able to do. If you can get your hands on wealth you have a right to it. If you can kill someone and get away with it, you have a right to do so, at least a natural right (and, yes, I am somewhat inclined to embrace natural rights over the man-made variety).

In the past, superior cultures always dominated inferior ones, destroyed them or enslaved them. There was none of this ballyhoo about multiculturalism, assimilation and tolerance.

So what the hell am I talking about?

I began by saying that something was wrong with our government. I misspoke. There could be nothing wrong with any government, any more than there could be something wrong with individual people. It's not that there's something wrong with this country so much as there is something dishonest about it. It was my clumsy way of saying that it is not in any way a country that is governed by the people. The people (in the form of statesmen) are not running this country. They are only claiming that they are. That is dishonest.

What is wrong with this country then, is dishonesty. We're lying to ourselves. We're not speaking the truth. We're expressing the desires of the marketplace.