Will less political interference in our lives ever again be possible?

[Geee]

American Spectator:

The safe thing to say on an Election Day is that whoever wins, the sun will come up next day. Which it will — on the way to rising on another Election Day, such is our present habit of living and dying by elections. The just concluded campaign should suggest to us why such a habit is deadlier than a carton-a-day cigarette addiction.

 

You have to have politics. You just don’t need to give the political enterprise the daily centrality it has come to enjoy in our affairs. When you do, it raises up less-than-salubrious people offering to make everything salubrious in return for our vote — a promise that, if kept (which it never is), would abolish the need for further promises. We’d all be happy as clams. We never are. Witness 2016.

 

What’s the point? The point is, we’d all likelier be happy if the vote-seekers would just let us alone most of the time: Leave us to find our ways through life’s tangles with the help of family and friends and community. Jefferson’s arguments for small, non-intrusive government have never, it seems to me, seemed more trenchant. The Affordable Care Act comes to mind, as it made so many lavish promises about singlehandedly improving the insurance system. And then there was the idea that if we just ripped down all the Confederate battle flags, voila: We’d have racial understanding. And then there was the movement to compel — look here, you dumb, beer-guzzling college riffraff, look here! — mutual consent for sexual relations at beer-guzzling frat parties!