Ridiculous Headline of the Week
12/06/2023
From the New York Times:
DeSantis Says He Would Pass a Bill to ‘Supersede’ Obamacare
I'm not even bothering with a link, just as I didn't bother clicking on the headline. I wouldn't have been able to read it, and in this case the headline is the story.
I hope I don't have to tell you what's wrong with it. Was it written by an intern who never had a civics class? Who knows?
There's a serious matter behind this, though. Far too many Americans have no real idea of how our system works, still less how it's meant to work, and don't really care. They think they are ruled by one person--whoever has the presidency--and the idea doesn't bother them. They don't want self-government. They want to be ruled by a benevolent despot who will take care of them. I cringe every time I hear someone say "Obama gave us" or "Trump gave us" or "Biden gave us" some desirable thing, frequently one over which the president has little or no control.
I wrote about this at some length a year and a half or so ago.