A recent Rasmussen poll reported that just 17% of Americans believe the government still has the consent of the government, while 83% do not believe the government has the consent of the governed. According to Rasmussen, that is the lowest number ever recorded for that indicator. Watch Rasmussen comment on that poll here.
That 83%, however, masks what is, at least from a conservative point of view, a more frightening undercurrent. Another Rasmussen poll, released August 3, says that while 84% of mainstream Americans think the country is headed in the wrong direction, 67% of the political class think America is headed in the right direction. If that August 3rd poll is correct, then there is a large constituency of Americans who not only think the government does not have the consent of the governed, but that the consent of the governed is irrelevant or even undesirable.
This highlights the elitist nature of a group of citizens of this country, a group which tells us "we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it."
That group, and their elitist assumption that they are entitled to rule the "great unwashed" (that refers to you, condescendingly also known as the "little people"), represents one of the most terrible threats to American self-governance. No person who ever holds these views should be allowed anywhere near any governing position, or any teaching position, for that matter, if America is to survive as a republic, "that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
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