When Intelligence Becomes a Sin

In the last election I noticed a phenomenon that is either new to our political landscape or it just recently resurfaced. When did having intelligent, informed politicians make them unfit to lead our nation. Ex-Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, seemed rather comfortable attacking the "political elite" in Washington. Their ability to articulate opinions on key issues was simply a symptom of their ignorance to the needs of the American public and their own obsession with money and power. President Barack Obama provides an excellent example of the disconnected political elite. A black man who carried himself into Harvard and graduated in the top of his class, obviously a man incapable of understanding the needs of American people. 

When did intelligence become a sin? The more I learn, the more rooted in knowledge my ideas become, the more often I feel others dismiss me. Instead of being rational human beings, it seems our other half would prefer the President and Congress consist of uninformed people who need to read notes off of their own hands to express the most basic of their own beliefs.

There is a reason that America was founded and established by the most well read, most intelligent men in the country. They were capable of understanding the needs of the nation, the needs of human beings, and the best ways to establish a government in that time. They were capable of articulating their beliefs intelligently, and the public was able to understand it. But now, most are incapable of even understanding the principles of the very nation they live in. For a group of people so obsessed with returning America to the principles it was founded upon, they seem so unprepared to understand those principles.

The culprits most responsible for the decay of our minds, for the decay of the American spirit are the ones most vocal about returning to that state. Tea Party? How inappropriate. A political movement based entirely on refusal to cooperate, compromise, and work together is not in the spirit of '76. You are not promoting the America ideal, tyranny is not an ideal. You have become that which our founders despised and feared most, that which our founders fought hardest to prevent from returning.