As partisans build a Tower of Babel

Reading the blogs and listening to the news shows, Dede Scozzafava has been labeled a conservative, a moderate and a radical leftist. There is such a lack of objectivity in political discourse, it's become a mish-mash of spin, obfuscation, smears and incomprehensible white noise.

However, out across the country where people lead busy lives doing something productive, there's a complete weariness with this Tower of Babel being built by politicians, pundits, media hacks and academics. I hear it over and over from multiple sources -- people are fed up with the partisan babble, the games, the lies, the empty promises and the patronizing assurances to allow them to handle the complex business of politics.

Washington D.C. needs an enema. The whole political industry has become a circus of manuevering for position, recognition, power and wealth. In the meantime, the free market is getting stepped on and jobs continue to go away. What intelligent investor would take a huge risk in this frenzy of power-grabs, regulation and in-fighting?

I think the message sent from the country is to stop this madness and get out of the way. Government is a monster grown out of control and people have had enough. A lot of young people voted for Obama because of the Hollywood marketing of government activity, but hopefully young people are beginning to realize government is stealing their future, and that there is absolutely nothing cool about it. Government should be boring, limited and effective, not an American Idol contest. The baby boomers were complicit in building this image of government as a route to "doing good", to saving the world, to helping those who are unfortunate.

Young people will hopefully realize that they are the future, and the private realm is where responsibility is taken to create changes and to express ideas of fairness, charity and equality of opportunity. Turning these reponsibilities over to government only empowers the state to partner with other power-mongers and rig the game. State power is too dangerous to trust with the awesome responsibility of change. Change is a voluntary process of free people working out their ideas in the marketplace of ideas -- it's an individual act, or working with other individuals to create organizations, persuading others through the power of reason, not group warfare using state power to enforce others to do what your group wants them to do, because you might find yourself among those being forced -- that's how group warfare with the state works -- the most powerful, connected groups win.

Calling all young voters -- there's a tower to tear down.