Idiots in Charge

High stakes gamble (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Richard Fernandez has a fine column over at PJ Media about the woes besetting the Democrats. I would quote the whole thing, but it's late and I'm tired. Instead I'll just include this short quote he uses. It's from Robert A. Heinlein (famous science fiction author. I hope you have heard of him.):

“Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.

This is known as “bad luck.”