"Politicians claim they make our lives better by passing laws. But laws rarely improve life. They go wrong. Unintended consequences are inevitable.
Most voters don't pay enough attention to notice. They read headlines. They watch the Rose Garden signing ceremonies and hear the pundits declare that progress was made. Bipartisanship! Something got done. We assume a problem was solved.
Intuition tells us that government is in the problem-solving business, and so the more laws passed, the better off we are. The possibility that fewer laws could leave us better off is hard to grasp. Kids visiting Washington don't ask their congressmen, "What laws did you repeal?" It's always, "What did you pass?" "..............
Clearly the masses disagree, apparently what the majority of Americans want is a big Gubment that controls them so they no longer have freedom - we need to be protected from ourselves. The collective "we" want equal shares of wealth, free food, an education, and healthcare - we are entitled to education, a living wage, housing, and healthcare by virtue of being American, only a moron would believe they have to earn and compete with others to be successful. Corporations are evil, soul sucking entities that exploit the workers, make insane profits, and then don't share the wealth with their fellow Americans - we need the Gubment to run every aspect of industry, Corporations should be against the law. We apparently believe that Socialism works, we put a Socialist in the White House two elections in a row.
I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.
"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him; better take a closer look at the American Indian." - Henry Ford
Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges; When the Republic is at its most corrupt the laws are most numerous. - Publius Cornelius Tacitus
