Why God created politicians

Conservative columnist Warner Todd Huston grumps that for decades American schools (surely only the non-voucher ones) have been creating "citizens that mindlessly expect that politicians exist only to ‘give us stuff.’"

You, me, our families, our neighbors, we’re all gimme-gimmee-gimmee all the time. We wussified Americans have been indoctrinated into wanting stuff like, you know, untainted food, uncrashing planes, undrunk truck drivers, uncontaminated water, uncollasping economic markets, unpolluted air, unpandemic-ed communities, unexploding microwave ovens, and on and on.

Warner Todd Huston is having none of that. He wants to revive American’s independent spirit, one salmonella outbreak at a time.

But if politicians don’t exist "to give us stuff" like, you know, good government, then why do they exist at all?

Well, if we all hadn’t been so thoroughly indoctrinated by our grammar-school teachers, the answer would seem perfectly logical and obvious to us: Politicians exist to make sure that only the market determines whether we get stuff like untainted food, uncrashing planes, undrunk truck drivers, uncontaminated water, uncollasping economic markets, unpolluted air, unpandemic-ed communities, unexploding microwave ovens, and on and on.

How does the market decide? Only God knows -- and stop asking such silly questions.

That, says Warner Todd Huston, is what America’s schools should be teaching.

Cross-posted at Rattlebrained