2016 Voter's Guide: Is the Government Omnipotent?

     Here's an experiment in political imagination:  Suppose today by unanimous consent of the governed we turned over all of our rights, privileges, resources, and property to the federal government.  Would our political and economic issues be solved?  Would this bring about a new kind of Utopia?  Would the government be able to manage our affairs in a way that would provide good provision for our physical needs, allow our children to be well-educated, and manage our needs for security, protection and healthcare?
     If you had any doubt in any area that a paternalistic government was not ideal, you sensed that there are limits to what government can do.  An intellectual elite, making our decisions for us, could not bring an end to war.  They could not provide the satisfaction that comes at the end of a day with a job well done.  They could not repair a marriage or return wayward children or end crime.  They can not change the heart of man.
     We ought to exhibit humility in our understanding of politics and government.  There are many things that government can't do.  We ought to be chastened by that fact and abandon our political hubris.  When we abdicate responsibility for our own lives and the welfare of our communities by giving the government the right to control, we ask for tyranny.  The one thing above all that government cannot do is be perfect.  Absolute power always corrupts.  Always.  This fall, vote for the person who clearly recognizes that danger.