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December 5, 2025

Governments are far more stupid than their people.

Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969), American general and president, Attributed, 1958, Jay p.133

Assuming you are the elected representative of the people of some district or other, how do you see your job? To reduce the role of government in people’s lives? To increase its positive impact on some? To justify its policies? Or to represent those policies to the public? Lastly, are you evidence of the stupidity to which Eisenhower refers?

It depends on who’s leading the government and what’s driving the people at any given time. Answer those questions, as of today; and if you’re stuck for an answer, start paying attention to what matters.


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